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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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.] | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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. | |
