Definitions for extort

extort ex·tort

Spelling: [ik-stawrt]
IPA: /ɪkˈstɔrt/

Extort is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in extort (eorttx).

Definitions for extort

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:

Origin of extort

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

Examples for extort

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?

Word Value for extort
Scrable

13

Words with friends

13

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