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Extort vs Wrenchout - What's the difference?

extort | wrenchout |

Wrenchout is likely misspelled.


Wrenchout has no English definition.

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.

extort

English

(Webster 1913)

Verb

(en verb)
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * extortion * extortionate * extortionist

    See also

    * intort

    wrenchout

    Not English

    Wrenchout has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

    English words similar to 'wrenchout':

    wrongfoot, wrongest, wormshit, wormiest, wrinkliest, wormcast, wringest, wranglest