Significato di blackmail in italiano

• 0 a situation in which someone forces you to do something, or to pay them money, by saying that they will tell another person something secret -- ricatto

• 1 to get money from someone by threatening to tell a secret or to harm them -- ricattare

  • They used the photographs to blackmail her. Hanno usato le fotografie per ricattarla.

• 2 to obtain money illegally from (a person), usually by threatening to make known something which the victim wants to keep secret -- ricattare

  • The politician was being blackmailed by an ex-girlfriend.

• 3 the act of blackmailing -- ricatto

  • He used blackmail to get money from the senator.