0 present participle of blackmail
1 to get money from someone by blackmail:
They used the photographs to blackmail her into spying for them.
A computer hacker's attempt to blackmail the bank was foiled by detectives last month.
The gang thought they could use the photographs to blackmail the pop star.
If someone is blackmailing you, you really must inform the police.
The film is about a city dealer who is blackmailing his boss.
Different models incorporated different types of manipulation, such as exaggerated begging regardless of need, or "blackmailing" parents by reducing one's own fitness until provided with extra food.
The ramifications of the blackmailing fraternity are some of the most extraordinary things in criminology.
Blackmailing threats of resignation indicate a weakness which is a running sore already and will develop into a festering boil.
