extort from

extort something from someone or something

to steal something from someone by coercion; to force someone to give something by making threats. The crook was trying to extort a lot of money from the widow by selling her a worthless insurance policy. The authorities caught the accounting firm trying to extort a great deal of money from the bank.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Aleksandrs	-	Latvian
Llywelyn	li-WEL-in	Welsh
Aliah	-	English (Rare)
Kitty	KIT-ee	English
Tuulikki	TOO:-leek-kee (Finnish)	Finnish, Finnish Mythology
Oriol	-	Catalan