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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Blackmail  \Black"mail`\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Blackmailed};  p. 
  pr  &  vb  n.  {Blackmailing}.] 
  To  extort  money  from  by  exciting  fears  of  injury  other  than 
  bodily  harm,  as  injury  to  reputation,  distress  of  mind,  etc.; 
  as  to  blackmail  a  merchant  by  threatening  to  expose  an 
  alleged  fraud.  [U.  S.] 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Blackmailing  \Black"mail`ing\,  n. 
  The  act  or  practice  of  extorting  money  by  exciting  fears  of 
  injury  other  than  bodily  harm,  as  injury  to  reputation. 




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