extort Copy link Outline 1. extorqueo, si, tum, 2 (by torture, force, or importunity)2. exprĭmo, pressi, ssum, 3 (to wring from, to elicit by pressure of any kind) • extort: 1. extorqueo, si, tum, 2 (by torture, force, or importunity): to e. money from any one, (pecuniam) ab aliquo ex., Cic.: by violence, vi ex., Cic. 2. exprĭmo, pressi, ssum, 3 (to wring from, to elicit by pressure of any kind): he is said to have e.'d 200 sestertia from a young man, dicitur ducenta sestertia juveni expressisse, Suet. Vesp. 4: Cic.: to e. a confession from any one, ex. alicui confessionem, Liv. Phr.: to e. money from a man by threatening him with law, litium terrore pecuniam ab aliquo abradere, Cic. Caec. 7, 19. See also to exact.