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DURESS
duress
(noun) compulsory force or threat; “confessed under duress”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
duress (uncountable)
(obsolete) Harsh treatment.
Constraint by threat.
(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.
Verb
duress (third-person singular simple present duresses, present participle duressing, simple past and past participle duressed)
To put under duress; to pressure.
Anagrams
• Druses, Suders, druses, sudser
Source: Wiktionary
Du"ress, n. Etym: [OF. duresse, du, hardship, severity, L. duritia, durities, fr. durus hard. See Dure.]
1. Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty. The agreements . . . made with the landlords during the time of slavery, are only the effect of duress and force. Burke.
2. (Law)
Definition: The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense.
Du*ress", v. t.
Definition: To subject to duress. "The party duressed." Bacon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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