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blackmail
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | warning; danger |
| Synonyms: | blackmail, bluff, commination, fix, foreboding, foreshadowing, fulmination, hazard, impendence, intimidation, menace, omen, peril, portent, presage, risk, thunder, writing on the wall |
| Main Entry: | hush money |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bribe |
| Synonyms: | blackmail, extortion, graft, kickback, payola |
| Main Entry: | shakedown |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extortion |
| Synonyms: | blackmail, exhortation, squeeze* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Concept: | Threat. |
| Category: | 2. Diffusive Sympathetic Affections |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
threat, menace; defiance; abuse, minacity, intimidation; denunciation; fulmination; commination (curse); gathering clouds (warning).
-verbs
threat, threaten; menace; snarl, growl, gnarl, mutter, bark, bully., defy; intimidate; keep in terrorem, hold up in terrorem, hold out in terrorem; shake the fist at, double the fist at, clinch the fist at; thunder, talk big, fulminate, use big words, bluster, look daggers.
-adjectives
threatening, menacing; minatory, minacious; comminatory, abusive; in terrorem; ominous (predicting) ; defiant; under the ban.
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