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extorsive

[ik-stawr-siv]

adjective

Law.
  1. serving or tending to extort.

    extorsive measures.



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Other Word Forms

  • extorsively adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of extorsive1

1660–70; < Latin extors ( us ) (past participle of extorquēre; extort ) + -ive

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