blackmailed

Meaning of blackmailed

verb
  1. To extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc.
    He blackmailed a businesswoman by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.
  2. (Kenya) To speak ill of someone; to defame someone.

Information about blackmailed

  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of blackmailed

black-mailed

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 11 chars.
  • blackmailed is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with blackmailed

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