extorsion

extorsion (countable and uncountable, plural extorsions)

1. (medicine) An outward rotation of a limb, organ or part of the eye.

Learned borrowing from Late Latin extortiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.stɔʁ.sjɔ̃/

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extorsion f (plural extorsions)

1. extortion (the practice of extorting money or other property)

• extorquer

• “extorsion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

extorsion

1. Alternative form of extorcion