extort

To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity.transitive

• to extort contributions from the vanquished
• to extort confessions of guilt

To obtain by means of the offense of extortion.transitive

• Weirdly, Renton doesn’t look too much older and the same also goes for Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), who has exchanged heroin for cocaine and nowadays runs an escort-and-blackmail business, secretly videoing clients and extorting money, work

To twist outwards.intransitivetransitive

Extorted; obtained by extortion.not-comparableobsolete

• Hauing great Lordships got and goodly farmes, Through strong oppression of his powre extort.