extorts

verb

present tense third-person singular of extort
as in exacts
to get (as money) by the use of force or threats a school bully who was used to extorting lunch money from weaker kids

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for extorts
  1. exacts
  2. squeezes
  3. coerces
  4. wrings
  5. wrests
Verb
  • The determination to do so sometimes exacts a great price, as Gettysburg attests.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Onshoring hasn’t taken off as a runaway trend even as the current political administration exacts punishing duties on offshore production markets far and wide.
    — Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of exacts
Verb
  • George pounds, folds, and squeezes the dough as Minicuci watches.
    — HubSpot, HubSpot, 30 Oct. 2026
  • When the user presses their finger on the part of the patch that contains the wet fabric, the pressure squeezes the water out of the material, down one of the microfluidic channels, and into the foaming agent chamber.
    — Ben Coxworth October 23, New Atlas, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of squeezes
Verb
  • Locked under floors of concrete and alone in his cell with just a toilet and steel bed, Jurek coerces the man in the cell next to him to bash his head in.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 30 Oct. 2026
  • However, the rotation of this filament clearly dominates how the galaxies within it spin, perhaps by funneling hydrogen gas along the dark-matter filament and onto the galaxies in a way that coerces their spin while providing further fuel for star formation.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 4 Dec. 2025
Definition of coerces
Verb
  • Bass wrings both roteness and refinement out of examining the road to the altar.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026
  • The intensity of the crowds vary from stop to stop (Czech came ready to rage at Rock for People in June), but Halsey persistently wrings herself out.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of wrings
Verb
  • If New England somehow wrests the divison away from Buffalo, Vrabel gets serious consideration.
    — Darren Cooper, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • Like everything else that works here, Brie’s performance wrests the last scraps of freshness from a mode of filmmaking this movie knows is played out, but doesn’t have the particular strength to reinvent.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 June 2026
Definition of wrests
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“Extorts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extorts. Accessed 5 Nov. 2026.

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