Extort vs Export - What's the difference?
extort | export |
To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt.
(legal) To obtain by means of the offense of extortion.
(transitive, and, intransitive, medicine, ophthalmology) To twist outwards.
of or relating to exportation or exports
(countable) something that is exported
(uncountable) the act of exporting
to carry away
* Francis Bacon
to sell (goods) to a foreign country
to cause to spread in another part of the world
(computing): to send (data) from one program to another
to put up (a child) for international adoption.
As a verb extort
is to wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt.As a noun export is
export (the act of exporting).extort
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(Webster 1913)Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
* extortion * extortionate * extortionistSee also
* intortexport
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Adjective
(-)Noun
(wikipedia export)- Oil is the main export of Saudi Arabia.
- The export of fish is forbidden in this country.
Synonyms
* (the act of exporting ): exportationAntonyms
* (something that is exported ): import * (the act of exporting ): import, importationVerb
(en verb)- [They] export honour from a man, and make him a return in envy.
- Japan exports electronic goods throughout the world.
