0 past simple and past participle of extort
1 to get something by force or threats, or with difficulty:
It is generally agreed that extorted promises are void ab initio.
But nobody any longer believes the confessions extorted by a totalitarian police and produced in these trials.
From the newspaper reports it does not appear that the false confessions were extorted by the police, who moreover did not act upon them.
Very occasionally there are cases in which it appears that false confessions have been faked or extorted.
Other revolutionary guerrillas have prevailed where they have enjoyed or extorted the support or acquiescence of a mass population.
I only urge that it may be given as a concession and not be extorted from us in later years.
Many millions are being extorted in this way by the landlord class from the people.
We need that kind of investment in this country from private pockets, not extorted from the taxpayer by the use of parliamentary majorities.
