erpressen — meaning in English
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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
- noun The crime of demanding money or favors by threatening to reveal damaging information.
- verb To force someone to pay money or do something by threatening to expose damaging information.
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