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blackmails

verb

Meaning

  1. To extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc.
  2. (Kenya) To speak ill of someone; to defame someone.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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