The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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.
Wiktionary
n. The act of one who blackmails. vb. (present participle of blackmail English)
Usage examples of "blackmailing".
Taylor looked at Steele sharply, Could she have bee wrong about Allison blackmailing someone?
Taylor agreed, "but if Allison was blackmailing anyone, it was most likely one of these men.
Also it seems to me that if he admitted that readily to an affair, if Allison was blackmailing hit the basis for the blackmail may have been something entirely different.
It is a small excuse, I suppose, that I was only going to blackmail one man instead of five, but that I had every intention of blackmailing that man there was no doubt.
At any rate, our innocent Miss Newbury here found all the blackmailing evidence after her father died.
I do not fool myself that I am the only one whom your late father was blackmailing.
I began my tale by telling Frank about how I had found out about Papa's blackmailing scheme, and I carried on from there with how I had followed up by blackmailing Philip.
I had told Frank about my father's blackmailing scheme, but I did not want to tell Catherine.
Then the revelation about Papa's blackmailing the unfortunate young man had been borne out by the moneylenders, who had descended upon the widowed Mrs.
Harlow was threatening him because Dunnet was either double-crossing or blackmailing him.
Even if Dunnet were double-crossing or blackmailing Harlow, how would beating up Dunnet help in any way?
This criminal Branson would appear to have got away with the blackmailing equivalent of murder but I wish him to listen to me very carefully.
Another lovely blackmailing trump in their hands in addition to their still undisclosed trumps.
Blackmailers never hold hostages without accompanying threats of what will happen if their blackmailing ends are not achieved.
If you're right -- if Warrenby was blackmailing the Squire, not for money, but merely to force him to sponsor him socially -- does that, in your view, constitute a sufficient motive for murder?