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 Definitions for Blackmailing: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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.]
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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.
[1913 Webster]
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