transcription, транскрипция: [ blækmeɪl ]
( blackmails, blackmailing, blackmailed)
1.
Blackmail is the action of threatening to reveal a secret about someone, unless they do something you tell them to do, such as giving you money.
It looks like the pictures were being used for blackmail...
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2.
If you describe an action as emotional or moral blackmail , you disapprove of it because someone is using a person’s emotions or moral values to persuade them to do something against their will.
The tactics employed can range from overt bullying to subtle emotional blackmail.
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3.
If one person blackmails another person, they use blackmail against them.
The government insisted that it would not be blackmailed by violence...
I thought he was trying to blackmail me into saying whatever he wanted.
VERB : V n , V n into -ing / n , also V n with n
• black‧mail‧er
(blackmailers)
The nasty thing about a blackmailer is that his starting point is usually the truth.
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