Arrancar información

[aleCcowaN]

How can I say "arrancar información". I'm not sure extracting or pulling out information convey clearly and univocally the violent intervention -threatens, torture, etc.- involved in "arrancar".

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by aleCcowaN

How can I say "arrancar información". I'm not sure extracting or pulling out information convey clearly and univocally the violent intervention -threatens, torture, etc.- involved in "arrancar".

I think it does. To extract information (never pulling out) does suggest some violence for me, as does extracting teeth, by the virtue of the Latin, literally to drag out

[hermit]

How about a figurative translation like "to exact information"?

[Perikles]

you can also glean information, which is devoid of force.

[aleCcowaN]

Thank you guys!

I used pull out thinking it was stronger than extract.

The verb exact is new to me. We have in Spanish the word "exacción" meaning a sum or goods exacted as payment, in an unfair fashion and maybe in a violent way. It looks good but I'm afraid that "exact information" is ambiguous, at least when I'm writing English "with an accent".

The verb glean is also new to me. I used "harvest" information or similar concepts, but I now see this verb is more adequate in most -if not all- cases.

Thank you again.