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extorsive

extorsive adjective: serving or tending to extort.

Adjective

extorsive (comparative more extorsive, superlative most extorsive)

  1. Serving or tending to extort.
    • the Words corrupte & extorsive being in the Indictment1750, Joseph Shaw, Parish Law

Forms of extorsive

comparativemore extorsive
superlativemost extorsive

Origin of extorsive

See extort.

Questions about extorsive

What does extorsive mean?
Extorsive means serving or tending to extort.
What part of speech is extorsive?
Extorsive is an adjective.

Words near extorsive in the dictionary

  1. Exton
  2. Exton and Horn
  3. extonious
  4. extorsion
  5. extorsions
  6. extorsive
  7. extorsively
  8. extort
  9. extortable
  10. extorted
  11. extortee

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