blackmail
/ˈblækˌmeɪl/ verbo C2En español: chantajear
- To extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc. · He blackmailed a businesswoman by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.
- To speak ill of someone; to defame someone.
He/she/it blackmails · Pasado blackmailed · Participio pasado blackmailed · Forma en -ing blackmailing
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Acton’s, and having thus got them into his power, proceeded, under threats of exposure, to levy blackmail upon them.
No doubt his blackmailing case is absorbing all his faculties.
I thought that you were in Baker Street working out that case of blackmailing.”
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