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What does extort mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To take or seize off an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity
  2. (transitive, law) To obtain by means of the offense of extortion.
  3. (medicine) To twist outwards.
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At checkpoints throughout the province, the security forces openly extort bribes.
Federal forces routinely extort money from detainees' relatives as a condition for release.
The two were eventually netted by the FBI, but the attempt to extort money from her was hard on her and her children.
Others are kidnapped and killed to extort lucrative ransoms from their families.
The administration proceeded to extort large sums of money, ostensibly to repay this cost, and the states ended up following suit.
Their threats extort facilities and subsidies from the regimes that increase their strength and influence.

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