'Blackmailed' definitions:
Definition of 'Blackmailed'
From: GCIDE
- 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.] [1913 Webster]