Word: blackmailed
Part of speech: Verb
Syllables: black
mailed
Definition: Simple past tense and past participle of blackmail; extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information
Morphemes:
Affix: black
Language: en
PoS: Adjective
Meaning: Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
Affix: mail
Language: en
Meaning: a piece of money
Affix: -ed
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form past tenses of (regular) verbs. In linguistics, it is used for the base form of any past form. See -t for a variant.