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extortion

English

Etymology

From Middle English extorcion, extorcioun, extorsioun, from Late Latin extorti?, from extorque?.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?k?st???n/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?k?st????n/
  • Rhymes: -??(r)??n

Noun

extortion (plural extortions)

  1. The practice of extorting money or other property by the use of force or threats.
    Synonym: blackmail

Related terms

  • extortionary, extortionate, extortive

Translations

Further reading

  • extortion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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swindling

English

Verb

swindling

  1. present participle of swindle

Noun

swindling (plural swindlings)

  1. The act by which somebody is swindled.
    • 1850, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 68, page 226)
      [] the jails were larger and fuller, the number of murders was incomparably greater, the thefts and swindlings in the old country were a bagatelle to the large depredations there []

Anagrams

  • windlings

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