Synonyms for extort
ɪkˈstɔrtex·tort

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1. extort

   Synonyms:
   claim, command, deny, enforce, exact, insist, refuse, reject

   Antonyms:
   ask, beg, beseech, crave, demand, entreat, implore, petition, pray, request, require, solicit, supplicate

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1. extort

   Synonyms:
   wring, despoil, fleece, exact, express, squeeze out, wrench, wrest, extract

   Antonyms:
   coax, wheedle, cajole, cheat

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1. extortverb

   obtain through intimidation

   Synonyms:
   rack, wring from, wring, gouge, squeeze

2. extort, squeeze, rack, gouge, wringverb

   obtain by coercion or intimidation

   "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him"

   Synonyms:
   pressure, crush, scud, coerce, rack, contort, thrust, press, twitch, wring from, rout, gouge, tweet, embrace, force, shove, single-foot, torment, twinge, compress, hug, wrench, contract, excruciate, stuff, distort, squeeze, squash, compact, pinch, wring, hale, mash, torture, force out, bosom, wedge, deform, squelch, constrict

3. extort, wring fromverb

   get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner

   Synonyms:
   rack, wring from, wring, gouge, squeeze

Matched Categories

1. • Crime
   • Obtain
   • Take

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1. extortverb

   Synonyms:
   exact, wrest, wring, wrench, force, get by force

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1. List of paraphrases for "extort":

   extract, blackmail

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1. Bruce Bennett:

   Certainly the administration is doing everything it can, within bounds, to get North Korea to trust them, but North Korea terminology, what they are saying, is exactly the opposite, which makes North Korea terminology sound like what Chairman Kim at his word is really trying to do is play the hard bargainer and extort as much as Chairman Kim at his word can... until the Americans decide( he is) not serious.

2. Scott Perry:

   How we got into this, in my opinion, is twofold, it's our energy policy in the United States. When we pull the United States offline of producing the energy that the world needs, it opens it up for other actors who use it to extort their neighbors, and Vladimir Putin is one of them.

3. Thomas Lynch:

   There is no other legitimate and reliable way to do that. You can't do it by air, you can't do it through Pakistan because they just extort for everything they do, the lifeline runs through Chabahar.

4. Geoff Porter:

   The Islamic State in Libya doesn't have comparable revenue streams – no oil sales, no sizeable population to tax and extort, in Libya, there is a superabundance of armed groups. For the most part they are busy fighting each other, but they could potentially be harnessed to eliminate Islamic State.

5. Eric Olson:

   So it makes use harder to reach out and gain the trust of those communities. are they a bad group of people who extort? Who murder? Yes.