"extort" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "extortion"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "extortionate"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "extortionist"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*terkʷ-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "extortus"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin extortus",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "extorquere",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to twist or wrench out, to extort"
      },
      "expansion": "extorquere (“to twist or wrench out, to extort”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ex",
        "3": "",
        "4": "out"
      },
      "expansion": "ex (“out”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "-tort"
      },
      "expansion": "-tort",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "torqueō",
        "3": "",
        "4": "twist, turn"
      },
      "expansion": "torqueō (“twist, turn”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin extortus, past participle of extorquere (“to twist or wrench out, to extort”); from ex (“out”) + -tort, from torqueō (“twist, turn”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "extorts",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "extorting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "extorted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "extorted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "extort (third-person singular simple present extorts, present participle extorting, simple past and past participle extorted)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "intort"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "39 16 33 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "to extort contributions from the vanquished",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "to extort confessions of guilt",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "to extort a promise",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "to extort payment of a debt",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1788 June, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, “Mr. Sheridan’s Speech, on Summing Up the Evidence on the Second, or Begum Charge against Warren Hastings, Esq., Delivered before the High Court of Parliament, June 1788”, in Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary, with Prefatory Remarks by N[athaniel] Chapman, M.D., volume I, [Philadelphia, Pa.]: Published by Hopkins and Earle, no. 170, Market Street, published 1808, →OCLC, page 474",
          "text": "The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity."
      ],
      "id": "en-extort-en-verb-iQVCbnGn",
      "links": [
        [
          "take",
          "take"
        ],
        [
          "seize",
          "seize"
        ],
        [
          "unwilling",
          "unwilling"
        ],
        [
          "physical",
          "physical"
        ],
        [
          "force",
          "force"
        ],
        [
          "menace",
          "menace"
        ],
        [
          "duress",
          "duress"
        ],
        [
          "torture",
          "torture"
        ],
        [
          "undue",
          "undue"
        ],
        [
          "illegal",
          "illegal"
        ],
        [
          "power",
          "power"
        ],
        [
          "ingenuity",
          "ingenuity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "84 16 0",
          "english": "from",
          "sense": "take by force",
          "word": "wrench away"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "84 16 0",
          "sense": "take by force",
          "word": "to tear away"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "84 16 0",
          "english": "from",
          "sense": "take by force",
          "word": "to wring"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "84 16 0",
          "sense": "take by force",
          "word": "to exact"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "93 4 2",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "šortʻel",
          "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
          "word": "շորթել"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 4 2",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "iztrǎgvam",
          "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
          "word": "изтръгвам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 4 2",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "lèsuǒ",
          "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
          "word": "勒索"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 4 2",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
          "word": "敲詐"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 4 2",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "qiāozhà",
          "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
          "word": "敲诈"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 4 2",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
          "word": "afpresse"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 4 2",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
          "word": "aftvinge"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 4 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
          "word": "kiristää"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 4 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
          "word": "riistää"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 4 2",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
          "word": "extorquer"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 4 2",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
          "word": "extorsionar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 4 2",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
          "word": "kicsikar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 4 2",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
          "word": "kikényszerít"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 4 2",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
          "word": "kizsarol"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 4 2",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
          "word": "estorcere"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 4 2",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
          "word": "carpire"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 4 2",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
          "word": "spillare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 4 2",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "cʰaŋ",
          "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
          "word": "ឆាំង"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 4 2",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "kɑmhaeŋ yɔɔk",
          "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
          "word": "កំហែងយក"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 4 2",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "sɑŋkɑt yɔɔk",
          "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
          "word": "សង្កត់យក"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 4 2",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "cumrɨt tie",
          "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
          "word": "ជំរិតទារ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 4 2",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
          "word": "extorqueō"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 4 2",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
          "word": "apo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 4 2",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
          "word": "kōhaki"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 4 2",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
          "word": "utpresse"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 4 2",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
          "word": "extorquir"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 4 2",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vyryvátʹ",
          "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
          "word": "вырыва́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 4 2",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vypýtyvatʹ",
          "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
          "word": "выпы́тывать"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 4 2",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "otžimatʹ",
          "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
          "tags": [
            "colloquial",
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "отжимать"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 4 2",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
          "word": "extorsionar"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Law",
          "orig": "en:Law",
          "parents": [
            "Justice",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "39 16 33 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in the Guardian",
          "text": "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).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To obtain by means of the offense of extortion."
      ],
      "id": "en-extort-en-verb-Kp73tXSE",
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law#English"
        ],
        [
          "extortion",
          "extortion"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, law) To obtain by means of the offense of extortion."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "3 93 4",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "lèsuǒ",
          "sense": "to obtain by means of the offense of extortion",
          "word": "勒索"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 93 4",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "to obtain by means of the offense of extortion",
          "word": "敲詐"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 93 4",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "qiāozhà",
          "sense": "to obtain by means of the offense of extortion",
          "word": "敲诈"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 93 4",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "to obtain by means of the offense of extortion",
          "word": "fravriste"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 93 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to obtain by means of the offense of extortion",
          "word": "kiristää"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 93 4",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "cʰaŋ",
          "sense": "to obtain by means of the offense of extortion",
          "word": "ឆាំង"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 93 4",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "kɑmhaeŋ yɔɔk",
          "sense": "to obtain by means of the offense of extortion",
          "word": "កំហែងយក"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 93 4",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "sɑŋkɑt yɔɔk",
          "sense": "to obtain by means of the offense of extortion",
          "word": "សង្កត់យក"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 93 4",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "cumrɨt tie",
          "sense": "to obtain by means of the offense of extortion",
          "word": "ជំរិតទារ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 93 4",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to obtain by means of the offense of extortion",
          "word": "extorquir"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 93 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vymogátʹ",
          "sense": "to obtain by means of the offense of extortion",
          "word": "вымога́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 93 4",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to obtain by means of the offense of extortion",
          "word": "extorsionar"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Medicine",
          "orig": "en:Medicine",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Ophthalmology",
          "orig": "en:Ophthalmology",
          "parents": [
            "Medicine",
            "Vision",
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "Senses",
            "All topics",
            "Perception",
            "Fundamental",
            "Body",
            "Human"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "39 16 33 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To twist outwards."
      ],
      "id": "en-extort-en-verb-AaY1Q1kt",
      "links": [
        [
          "medicine",
          "medicine"
        ],
        [
          "ophthalmology",
          "ophthalmology"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive and intransitive, medicine, ophthalmology) To twist outwards."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "ophthalmology",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 100",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to twist outwards",
          "word": "spillare"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪkˈstɔː(ɹ)t/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔː(ɹ)t"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "extort"
}

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      "args": {
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      "name": "bor"
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  "etymology_text": "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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        "Wrongfully obtained."
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        "(obsolete) Wrongfully obtained."
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      "ipa": "/ɪkˈstɔː(ɹ)t/"
    },
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    "English lemmas",
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    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
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    {
      "word": "extortion"
    },
    {
      "word": "extortionate"
    },
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      "word": "extortionist"
    }
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      "name": "bor"
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      "form": "extorts",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
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        {
          "text": "to extort contributions from the vanquished",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "to extort confessions of guilt",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "to extort a promise",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "to extort payment of a debt",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1788 June, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, “Mr. Sheridan’s Speech, on Summing Up the Evidence on the Second, or Begum Charge against Warren Hastings, Esq., Delivered before the High Court of Parliament, June 1788”, in Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary, with Prefatory Remarks by N[athaniel] Chapman, M.D., volume I, [Philadelphia, Pa.]: Published by Hopkins and Earle, no. 170, Market Street, published 1808, →OCLC, page 474",
          "text": "The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!",
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          "take"
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          "seize"
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          "unwilling"
        ],
        [
          "physical",
          "physical"
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        [
          "force",
          "force"
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        [
          "menace",
          "menace"
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        [
          "duress",
          "duress"
        ],
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          "torture",
          "torture"
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          "undue",
          "undue"
        ],
        [
          "illegal",
          "illegal"
        ],
        [
          "power",
          "power"
        ],
        [
          "ingenuity",
          "ingenuity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ],
      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "categories": [
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        "English transitive verbs",
        "en:Law"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in the Guardian",
          "text": "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).",
          "type": "quotation"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To obtain by means of the offense of extortion."
      ],
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          "extortion"
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        "(transitive, law) To obtain by means of the offense of extortion."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
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      "categories": [
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        "English transitive verbs",
        "en:Medicine",
        "en:Ophthalmology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To twist outwards."
      ],
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          "medicine"
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        [
          "ophthalmology",
          "ophthalmology"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive and intransitive, medicine, ophthalmology) To twist outwards."
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        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "ophthalmology",
        "sciences"
      ]
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      "ipa": "/ɪkˈstɔː(ɹ)t/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔː(ɹ)t"
    },
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    {
      "english": "from",
      "sense": "take by force",
      "word": "wrench away"
    },
    {
      "sense": "take by force",
      "word": "to tear away"
    },
    {
      "english": "from",
      "sense": "take by force",
      "word": "to wring"
    },
    {
      "sense": "take by force",
      "word": "to exact"
    }
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      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "šortʻel",
      "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
      "word": "շորթել"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "iztrǎgvam",
      "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
      "word": "изтръгвам"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "lèsuǒ",
      "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
      "word": "勒索"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
      "word": "敲詐"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "qiāozhà",
      "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
      "word": "敲诈"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
      "word": "afpresse"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
      "word": "aftvinge"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
      "word": "kiristää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
      "word": "riistää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
      "word": "extorquer"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
      "word": "extorsionar"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
      "word": "kicsikar"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
      "word": "kikényszerít"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
      "word": "kizsarol"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
      "word": "estorcere"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
      "word": "carpire"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
      "word": "spillare"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "cʰaŋ",
      "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
      "word": "ឆាំង"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "kɑmhaeŋ yɔɔk",
      "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
      "word": "កំហែងយក"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "sɑŋkɑt yɔɔk",
      "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
      "word": "សង្កត់យក"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "cumrɨt tie",
      "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
      "word": "ជំរិតទារ"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
      "word": "extorqueō"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
      "word": "apo"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
      "word": "kōhaki"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
      "word": "utpresse"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
      "word": "extorquir"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vyryvátʹ",
      "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
      "word": "вырыва́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vypýtyvatʹ",
      "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
      "word": "выпы́тывать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otžimatʹ",
      "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "отжимать"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity",
      "word": "extorsionar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "lèsuǒ",
      "sense": "to obtain by means of the offense of extortion",
      "word": "勒索"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to obtain by means of the offense of extortion",
      "word": "敲詐"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "qiāozhà",
      "sense": "to obtain by means of the offense of extortion",
      "word": "敲诈"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to obtain by means of the offense of extortion",
      "word": "fravriste"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to obtain by means of the offense of extortion",
      "word": "kiristää"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "cʰaŋ",
      "sense": "to obtain by means of the offense of extortion",
      "word": "ឆាំង"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "kɑmhaeŋ yɔɔk",
      "sense": "to obtain by means of the offense of extortion",
      "word": "កំហែងយក"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "sɑŋkɑt yɔɔk",
      "sense": "to obtain by means of the offense of extortion",
      "word": "សង្កត់យក"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "cumrɨt tie",
      "sense": "to obtain by means of the offense of extortion",
      "word": "ជំរិតទារ"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to obtain by means of the offense of extortion",
      "word": "extorquir"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vymogátʹ",
      "sense": "to obtain by means of the offense of extortion",
      "word": "вымога́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to obtain by means of the offense of extortion",
      "word": "extorsionar"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to twist outwards",
      "word": "spillare"
    }
  ],
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}

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