Definitions for extorts

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extorts ex·tort

Spelling: [ik-stawrt]

IPA: /ɪkˈstɔrt/

Extorts is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 131 anagrams from letters in extorts (eorsttx).

Definitions for extorts

verb (used with object)

1. Law. to wrest or wring (money, information, etc.) from a person by violence, intimidation, or abuse of authority; obtain by force, torture, threat, or the like. to take illegally by reason of one's office.
2. to compel (something) of a person or thing:
3. Law. to wrest or wring (money, information, etc.) from a person by violence, intimidation, or abuse of authority; obtain by force, torture, threat, or the like. to take illegally by reason of one's office.
4. to compel (something) of a person or thing:

Origin of extorts

1375-1425; late Middle English (adj.) Latin extortus, past participle of extorquēre, equivalent to ex- ex-¹ + torquēre to twist

Examples for extorts

What Republicans will attempt to extort from the White House will be decided at their retreat in January.

She was trying to extort a promise that she should appear in its pages, which, as we all remember, she did.

Then, after a time, when wanting to extort again, he went on to another place.

Or a stranger willing to let you use their cellphone to call your family might save their number and use it to extort them later.

Kellner was also charged with attempting to extort the Lebovits family.

They say he tried to extort more money from them on the way out of Syria, but Mousa engaged him angrily in Arabic.

This woman is some impudent impostor, who wants to extort money out of me.

Instead, it would rather sabotage the game and try to extort its way to a victory.

I have since thought we were ironed merely to extort this arrangement from us.

What would she do with a secret she had taken such hazards to extort?

Kellner was also charged with attempting to extort the Lebovits family.

I have since thought we were ironed merely to extort this arrangement from us.

What Republicans will attempt to extort from the White House will be decided at their retreat in January.

They say he tried to extort more money from them on the way out of Syria, but Mousa engaged him angrily in Arabic.

Instead, it would rather sabotage the game and try to extort its way to a victory.

This woman is some impudent impostor, who wants to extort money out of me.

She was trying to extort a promise that she should appear in its pages, which, as we all remember, she did.

Then, after a time, when wanting to extort again, he went on to another place.

What would she do with a secret she had taken such hazards to extort?

Or a stranger willing to let you use their cellphone to call your family might save their number and use it to extort them later.