3syllables
blackmailing
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Definitions ofblackmailing
1verb
- 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.
Example: "He blackmailed a businesswoman by threatening to expose an alleged fraud."
- (Kenya) To speak ill of someone; to defame someone.
1noun
- The act of one who blackmails.
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