extort

extort[ik'stɔ:t]

• vt.
  • 【法律】
    • (通过暴力、威胁等手段)敲诈、勒索，逼取，强取(钱财、情报等)，逼(供)(from，of，out of):

      to extort money from merchants

      向商人勒索钱财

      to use torture to extort a confession from someone

      刑讯逼供

    • (滥用职权、权势)侵吞，侵占
  • 迫使，强求：

    Her wit and intelligence extorted their admiration.

    她的聪明才智使他们不得不佩服。

  • 牵强地推断出(或引出)(词义等)(from):

    to extort a bizarre sense from the few words

    对只言片语作牵强附会的曲解

• 近义词:

  extract

• inch
• Kandinsky, Wassily
• be a crying shame
• tape marker
• start from scratch
• diners-out
• bug-eyed
• a prince among men
• machined
• sedgeland
• novelising
• bishop's cross
• public enterprises
• glutting
• Sphaeroceridae
• basic slag
• everything in the garden is rosy
• extraverted
• lictor
• sententiousness
• Erma
• go beyond the bounds of
• dental plate
• influxed
• not to mince matters
• reenactions
• carpingly
• causticly
• allotypes
• orgulous
• multisystems
• X-ray spectrometer
• flight feathers
• sleave
• suf.
• icy poles
• Myrtaceae
• wandoo
• effluviums
• prairie turnip
• agatize
• embryotrophy
• cobalt blue
• on-linest
• endpoints
• sulfured
• full to the brim
• Cylindrospermum
• gyte
• sustainable yield
• mappist
• be greater than the sum of
• dead glacier
• capricornuss
• PVAc
• enattendant
• houseguesting
• domanial
• hand in one's dinner pail
• Artzybasheff, Boris Mikhsiio vich
• hot acid
• kennel in
• in base
• o.e.
• hyetologist
• phantasma
• have nothing in one
• take the stud (或 studs)
• securities and exchange commissions
• doubled
• cantars
• nyala
• topknotted
• azurine
• microcytic
• quadratic Zeeman effect
• noct-
• Geryon
• Copernican systems
• plebby
• concussive
• untouchably
• Firdausi
• portosystemic
• slipped或 slipt
• linear-logarithmic intermediate-frequency amplifier
• street values
• megagauss
• colorpoint shorthair
• exhumers
• bootstrap button
• resinography
• acoustical ceiling
• give a hearing to
• kangaroo
• leukemogenesis
• scare sb shitless
• help oneself to
• and all that sort of thing
• high-and-mightiness