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Перевод: extort

[глагол]
вымогать деньги; выпытывать (секрет); вымучивать

Тезаурус:

1. But he cannot extort blessings here.
2. The hero must extort something of the demon's power.
3. "Fasting can be resorted to only against a lover, not to extort rights but to reform him, is when a son fasts for a father who drinks
4. The story concerns Crowland's bailiff, Ashford of Helpstone, who in 1076 was summoned by Ingulph before the King's Justices at Stamford for trying to extort land from the abbey.
5. But bands of armed rebels from sundry factions still extort food from villages, some of them across the border in neighbouring Sierra Leone.
6. It is not only that those extreme means of attempting to extort confessions, for example the rack and thumbscrew, which have sometimes disfigured the system of criminal justice in this country, are abhorrent to any civilised society, but that they and other less awful, though not necessarily less potent, means of applying pressure to an accused person to speak do not necessarily produce speech or the truth.
7. He started living lavishly and tried to extort more and more money from the government who were paying him a tax-free pension of 1,050 a month.
8. In large sections of Punjab they extort money (calling it taxation), hold courts, decree what local newspapers should print and even decide what dress schoolchildren should wear.
9. Thus the BSA attempted to extort over 20 million from the new government of Zambia in 1964 in exchange for its mineral rights, but was ultimately forced to accept 4 million.
10. Instead of boldly breaking the charm and paying every man's debts out of his property, the legislature attempted to turn the flank of the evil - to extort justice by persecution, to arm the creditor with powers of vexation instead of powers of sale, to satisfy his vindictiveness instead of his bill delivered.
11. James I did, on the specious excuse of the ransom due to England for his release; James V blackmailed the papacy into allowing him to extort vast amounts of taxation from the church.
12. The violence of the language used by the chronicler of St Albans shows his hatred of the Forest system, which was so often used to extort money from the monasteries.
13. As the storm raged about them, the bier unaccountably broke and the corpse tumbled into a meadow the bailiff had been trying to extort.