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Duress

//duˈɹɛs// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Harsh treatment. obsolete, uncountable

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

  2. 2
    compulsory force or threat wordnet
  3. 3
    Constraint by threat. uncountable

    "It is unclear when it was filmed and if she was under duress during filming."

  4. 4
    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. uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To put under duress; to pressure.

    "Someone was duressing her."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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