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What does extort mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word extort? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To take or seize off an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity
  2. (transitive, law) To obtain by means of the offense of extortion.
  3. (medicine) To twist outwards.
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There are many registered cases of police using the threat of arrest to extort a lot of money from the husband's family.
This would bring an end to his many attempts to extort money from organisations on the flimsiest of pretexts.
At checkpoints throughout the province, the security forces openly extort bribes.
All the unions did was form cartels and use the threat of violence to keep competitors at bay and extort some wealth from the capitalists.
The protection money and ransoms governments or insurgents extort from oil companies do not prolong the violence.
This morning the proprietors instructed a senior Bulawayo lawyer to respond to the police's attempt to extort money in this way.

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