blackmail
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- n extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information
- v exert pressure on someone through threats
- v obtain through threats
- What royal family member is targeted by an alleged blackmail plot? And can the UK press cover it without naming names?.
- In two cases, he confessed, he used blackmail to extract money.
- Ian Strachan has been named as one of the men accused of attempting to blackmail an unidentified member of the royal family.