(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
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 ~...
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2.
If you describe an action as emotional or moral ~, 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 ~.
N-UNCOUNT disapproval
3.
If one person ~s another person, they use ~ against them.
The government insisted that it would not be ~ed by violence...
I thought he was trying to ~ me into saying whatever he wanted.
VERB: V n, V n into -ing/n, also V n with n
~er (~ers)
The nasty thing about a ~er is that his starting point is usually the truth.
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