duress

English

Etymology

Middle English Old French duresse, from Latin duritia (“hardness”), from durus (“hard”)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛs

Noun

duress (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Harsh treatment.
2. Constraint by threat.

Translations

constraint by threat

• Bulgarian: принуда (bg) (prinuda) f
• French: contrainte (fr) f
• Persian: اکراه (fa)

• Russian: принуждение (ru) (prinuždénie), давление (ru) (davlénie)
• Scottish Gaelic: èiginn (gd) f
• Spanish: coacción (es) f

Confinement; imprisonment

• Russian: заточение (ru) (zatočénie), тюремное заключение (ru) (tjurémnoe zaključénie),

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Interlingua: epilogo

Verb

duress (third-person singular simple present duresses, present participle duressing, simple 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.

Anagrams

• druses