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Webster 1913 Edition
Blackmailing
Black′mailˊing
,Noun.
The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.
Definition 2024
blackmailing
blackmailing
English
Verb
blackmailing
- present participle of blackmail
Noun
blackmailing (plural blackmailings)
- The act of one who blackmails.
- Winston Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times (book 2, page 51)
- All the materials, therefore, existed for an interminable series of hagglings, bargainings, and blackmailings.
- Winston Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times (book 2, page 51)