Assertion: blackmail | /r/HasProperty | to extort favors
Facets:
value: by exciting fears of injury
type: MANNER
value: from a person
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: As verbs the difference between blackmail and whitemail is that blackmail is 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; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud while whitemail is to persuade.
text: As verbs the difference between threatening and blackmail is that threatening is while blackmail is 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; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.