blackmailing

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blackmailing - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Blackmail \Black"mail`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blackmailed; p.
     pr. & vb. n. Blackmailing.]
     To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than
     bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.;
     as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an
     alleged fraud. [U. S.]
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  Blackmailing \Black"mail`ing\, n.
     The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of
     injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.
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