shake down

Meaning

1. To cause something to fall down by shaking it, or something it is attached to.
2. To shake someone so money falls from their pockets.
3. (slang) To extort money from (someone) by means of threats.
4. (slang) To search exhaustively.
5. To subject something to a shakedown test.

Synonyms

blackmail

settle down

extort

blemish

blight

decimate

deface

deflower

destroy

devastate

exact

extortion

fell

floor

get rid of

hijack

hold up

impair

kill

🔪🩸👤

knock down

mar

pull down

racketeering

ruin

settle in

shake

🫨

shake off

solicit

spoil

stagger

throw off

undo

unsettle

wreck

do for

shower down

accost

tamp down

agitate

blast

Translations

καταρρίπτω

κλονίζω

fare cadere

herunterschütteln

καταστρέφω

εκβιασμός

afschudden

uitschudden

durchsuchen

uitspreiden

erpressen

filzen

εκβιάζω