extort

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.Examples: "to extort contributions from the vanquished"; "to extort confessions of guilt"; "to extort a promise"Synonyms: wrench away, to tear away, to wring, to exacttransitive

2. (transitive, law) To obtain by means of the offense of extortion.Examples: "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)."transitive

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