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duress
1. n. (obsolete) Harsh treatment.
2. n. Constraint by threat.
3. n. (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 o
4. v. To put under duress; to pressure.
Someone was duressing her.
The small nation was duressed into giving up territory.

Pronunciation

Example Sentences

Their case all along was that they were still acting under the force of the duress.  The nine had claimed they were acting under duress when they hijacked the plane.

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