Voters were effectively blackmailed into voting ‘Yes’.
Don't let him emotionally blackmail you.
She says she was virtually blackmailed into giving up her claim to the property.
• Most of his wealth had been acquired through blackmail.
• a man who blackmailed gay businessmen by threatening to expose their homosexuality
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Large corporations can be vulnerable to blackmail demands by computer hackers.
A former executive, seeking damages of $2.5 million, was accused of trying to blackmail the company.
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to give way / to yield to blackmail — поддаться на шантаж; уступить шантажу
шантаж; вымогательство
2. {ʹblækmeıl} vшантажировать; вымогать деньги
• Alfred Hitchcock's first talkie
• Coerce illegally
• Film murder motive, perhaps
• Motive for murder, perhaps
• Supreme letters (1937-71)
• Extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information
1) шантаж
2) шантажувати
- blackmailed- blackmailer- blackmailing