i Register
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noun
Harsh treatment.
The agreements […] made with the landlords during the time of slavery, are only the effect of duress and force.
Constraint by threat.
It is unclear when it was filmed and if she was under duress during filming.
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
verb
To put under duress; to pressure.
Someone was duressing her.
The small nation was duressed into giving up territory.