duress

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /djʊˈɹɛs/, /d͡ʒʊˈɹɛs/
• (America) IPA: /duˈɹɛs/

Noun

duress (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Harsh treatment.

   • The agreements […] made with the landlords during the time of slavery, are only the effect of duress and force.

2. Constraint by threat.
3. (legal) Restraint in which a person is influenced, whether by lawful or unlawful forceful compulsion of their liberty by monition or implementation of physical enforcement; legally for the incurring of civil liability, of a citizen's arrest, or of subrogation, or illegally for the committing of an offense, of forcing a contract, or of using threats.

Related terms

• endure

Translations

• French: contrainte
• German: Zwang, Nötigung
• Russian: принужде́ние
• Spanish: coacción

Translations

• Russian: заточе́ние

Verb

duress (duresses, present participle duressing; past and past participle duressed)

1. To put under duress; to pressure.

   Someone was duressing her.

   The small nation was duressed into giving up territory.

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