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extort

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Verb

  1. To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity.
  2. To obtain by means of the offense of extortion.
  3. To twist outwards.

Adjective

  1. extorted; obtained by extortion.

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