extort

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity. transitive
    — to extort contributions from the vanquished
  2. To obtain by means of the offense of extortion. transitive
    — 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).
  3. To twist outwards. intransitive,transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. extorted; obtained by extortion. not-comparable,obsolete
    — Hauing great Lordships got and goodly farmes, Through strong oppression of his powre extort.

词形变化

extorts present,singular,third-person extorting participle,present extorted participle,past extorted past

词汇关系

衍生词
extortable extortee extorter extortion extortionate extortionist extortive sextort unextorted
相关词
intort

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Latin extortus, past participle of extorquere (“to twist or wrench out, to extort”); from ex (“out”) + -tort, from torqueō (“twist, turn”).
词源 2
Borrowed from Latin extortus, past participle of extorquere (“to twist or wrench out, to extort”); from ex (“out”) + -tort, from torqueō (“twist, turn”).
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