duress

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French duresse, from Latin duritia (“hardness”), from durus (“hard”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /djʊˈɹɛs/, /d͡ʒʊˈɹɛs/
• IPA^(key): /duˈɹɛs/
• Rhymes: -ɛs

Noun

duress (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Harsh treatment.
   • Burke

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

2. Constraint by threat.
3. (law) 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

constraint by threat

• Bulgarian: принуда (bg) f (prinuda)
• Danish: tvang (da) c
• French: contrainte (fr) f
• German: Zwang (de) m, Nötigung (de) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tvang (no)

• Persian: اکراه (fa)
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• Romanian: obligare prin forță f, constrângere (ro) f
• Russian: принужде́ние (ru) (prinuždénije), давле́ние (ru) (davlénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: èiginn f
• Spanish: coacción (es) f
• Swedish: tvång (sv)

confinement; imprisonment

• Russian: заточе́ние (ru) (zatočénije), тюре́мное заключе́ние (tjurémnoje zaključénije)
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Verb

1. To put under duress; to pressure.

   Someone was duressing her.

   The small nation was duressed into giving up territory.

Anagrams

• Druses, Suders, druses, sudser