blackmail

/ˈblækˌmeɪl/ 动词 C2

中文：勒索、敲诈、诛求、逼勒

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. (transitive) · He blackmailed a businesswoman by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.
To speak ill of someone; to defame someone.

He/she/it blackmails · 过去式 blackmailed · 过去分词 blackmailed · -ing形式 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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