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Translations for „extort“ in the English » Slovenian Dictionary (Go to Slovenian » English)

ex·tort [ɪkˈstɔ:t, ekˈ-] VB trans

extort
extort
odirati [perf odreti]
extort
to extort money from sb

Usage examples with extort

to extort money from sb

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
It bars all it dislikes--it extorts all its demands--and it grows insolent over its victories.
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At the end a huge ransom was extorted for not destroying the city, although this was only partly paid.
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The bishop was further charged with extorting money from his clergy on his visitations.
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Chemically dependent, involved in marginal, he lives fleeing rehab clinics and trying to extort money from relatives and friends to get support his habit.
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Under his orders insurgents also attacked numerous farms with the same strategy also extorting agricultural producers throughout the region.
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Initially, he was accused of having extorted over three million rubles ($114,000) from residents by threatening to destroy their real estate and preventing them from rebuilding.
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Proponents of such groups maintain however that there is no difference between the revolutionary taxes extorted by given groups and corporate taxes raised by governments.
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It extorted construction of the huge church, being able to hold a few thousand people.
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He turns a rich man's wife into a statue, and extorts money.
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If the victim does this, the scammers have the power to extort money from the victim.
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