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EXTORT + NOUN
confessions, contributions, guilt
PREP.
from
verb
To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity.
to extort contributions from the vanquished
to extort confessions of guilt
To obtain by means of the offense of extortion.
Weirdly, Renton doesn’t look too much older and the same also goes for Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), who has exchanged heroin for cocaine and nowadays runs an escort-and-blackmail business, secretly videoing clients and extorting money, working with his female business partner, Veronika (Anjela Nedyalkova).
To twist outwards.
adj
extorted; obtained by extortion.
Hauing great Lordships got and goodly farmes, Through strong oppression of his powre extort.
to extort contributions from the vanquished
Wiktionaryto extort confessions of guilt
Wiktionaryto extort a promise
WiktionaryHauing great Lordships got and goodly farmes, Through strong oppression of his powre extort.
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In some senses, extort is marked as obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.