0 present participle of blackmail --
1 to get money from someone by blackmail: --
They used the photographs to blackmail her into spying for them.
It would be blackmailing the innocent for sin.
Does he realise that the real level of unemployment—more than 4 million—is blackmailing many people into premature retirement and early poverty?
She can turn one way and the other, blackmailing this way and that.
I have no approval of the blackmailing methods adopted for raising the price.
In view of the element of sympathy that is involved, is he not blackmailing the workers?
The blackmailing practices of unions must be made to stop.
No doubt blackmailing cases are not uncommon; that is beyond question, and through the newspapers one has become familiar with the great range they cover.
There is very little, blackmailing in connection with that.
