blackmail vs mimic

blackmail

verb
  • To speak ill of someone; to defame someone. 

  • To extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc. 

noun
  • The extortion of money or favours by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure. 

  • Black rent, or rent paid in corn, meat, or the lowest coin, as opposed to white rent, which was paid in silver. 

  • Compromising material that can be used to extort someone, dirt. 

mimic

verb
  • To imitate, especially in order to ridicule. 

  • To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage. 

noun
  • An imitation. 

  • A comic who does impressions. 

  • An entity that mimics another entity, such as a disease that resembles another disease in its signs and symptoms; see the great imitator. 

  • A mime. 

adj
  • Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry. 

  • Pertaining to mimicry; imitative. 

  • Mock, pretended. 

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