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sextorting

sextorting is the present participle and gerund of sextort.

Meaning of sextort

Verb

sextort (third-person singular simple present sextorts, present participle sextorting, simple past and past participle sextorted)

  1. (informal, transitive) To coerce through the threat of revealing someone's sexual history.
    • Several of my clients were sextorted by former partners who threatened to distribute their target's naked images or videos unless the women returned to the relationships or acquiesced to the offenders' demands for sex.2019, Carrie Goldberg, Nobody's Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs and Trolls

Questions about sextorting

What is sextorting the present participle and gerund of?
Sextorting is the present participle and gerund of sextort.

Words near sextorting in the dictionary

  1. Sextonville
  2. sextopia
  3. sextopias
  4. sextort
  5. sextorted
  6. sextorting
  7. sextortion
  8. sextortionist
  9. sextortionists
  10. sextorts
  11. sextos

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