Definition of extorts:
(v) :
(transitive) To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity.
(v) :
(transitive, law) To obtain by means of the offense of extortion.
(v) :
(transitive and intransitive, medicine, ophthalmology) To twist outwards.
(adj) :
(obsolete) extorted; obtained by extortion.