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blackmails

blackmails is the third-person singular simple present indicative of blackmail.

Meaning of blackmail

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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Questions about blackmails

What is blackmails the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Blackmails is the third-person singular simple present indicative of blackmail.

Words near blackmails in the dictionary

  1. blackmailer
  2. blackmailers
  3. Blackmailer’s Charter
  4. blackmailing
  5. blackmailings
  6. blackmails
  7. blackmaily
  8. blackman
  9. Blackmans
  10. Blackmans Bay
  11. Blackmans Flat

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