erpressen — meaning in English

English meaning

• blackmail noun The crime of demanding money or favors by threatening to reveal damaging information.
• extort verb To obtain money or something else by threats, force, or abuse of power.

Senses

erpressen is used for these senses in English:

• blackmail (Kenya) To speak ill of someone; to defame someone.
• extort (transitive) To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity.
• shake down (slang, transitive, by extension) To extort money from (someone) by means of threats.

blackmail — full definition

1. noun The crime of demanding money or favors by threatening to reveal damaging information.
2. verb To force someone to pay money or do something by threatening to expose damaging information.

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