English Dictionary

extort

IPA（発音記号）

/ɪkˈstɔː(ɹ)t/

動詞

他動詞 自動詞

(transitive) To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity.

日本語の意味

不本意な相手に対し、脅迫や暴力、圧力などを用いて、物や権利を不当に奪い取ること / 不法または不正な手段によって、相手に強制的に渡させる、恐喝する行為

The mob tried to extort money from the café owner by threatening to burn down his shop.

暴徒は店を焼き払うと脅して喫茶店の店主から金をゆすり取ろうとした。

意味（1）

(transitive) To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity.

to extort contributions from the vanquished

意味（2）

(transitive, law) To obtain by means of the offense of extortion.

Weirdly, Renton doesn’t look too much older and the same also goes for Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), who has exchanged heroin for cocaine and nowadays runs an escort-and-blackmail business, secretly videoing clients and extorting money, working with his female business partner, Veronika (Anjela Nedyalkova).

意味（3）

(transitive and intransitive, medicine, ophthalmology) To twist outwards.

extorts （ present singular third-person ）

extorting （ participle present ）

extorted （ participle past ）

extorted （ past ）