blackmailed

Verb

blackmail (third-person singular simple present blackmails, present participle blackmailing, simple past and past participle blackmailed)

1. (transitive) 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.
2. (Kenya) To speak ill of someone; to defame someone.

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