Definition of Blackmail. Meaning of Blackmail. Synonyms of Blackmail

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Definition of Blackmail

Blackmail
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.]

Meaning of Blackmail from wikipedia

- Blackmail is a criminal act of coercion using a threat. As a criminal offense, blackmail is defined in various ways in common law jurisdictions. In the...
- Blackmailer, Blackmailed or Blackmail may also refer to: Blackmail (1920 film), American silent drama directed by Dallas M. Fitzgerald Blackmailed (1920...
- Emotional blackmail was po****rized by psychotherapist Susan Forward about controlling people in relationships and the theory that fear, obligation and...
- Blackmail is a 1929 British crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitch**** and starring Anny Ondra, John Longden, and Cyril Ritchard. Based on the 1928...
- Blackmail (stylised as Blackमेल) is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language black comedy film co-produced and directed by Abhinay Deo. The film stars Irrfan Khan...
- Nuclear blackmail is a form of nuclear strategy in which one of states uses the threat of use of nuclear weapons to force an adversary to perform some...
- gender-based violence legal frameworks. ****tortion also refers to a form of blackmail in which ****ual information or images are used to extort money or ****ual...
- The Tesco blackmail plot was an extortion attempt against the British supermarket chain Tesco and which led to the largest blackmail investigation in the...
- Blackmail is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Anil Devgan, which stars Ajay Devgn, Sunil Shetty and Priyanka Chopra in the...
- No. 6, New York: Frank A. Munsey (December 1907), p. 1098 "Alleged Blackmailers Taken by Boston Police". The North Adams Transcript. North Adams, MA...