Duress

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Constraint by threat; coercion: confessed under duress.
  • n. Law Coercion illegally applied.
  • n. Law Forcible confinement.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Harsh treatment.
  • n. Constraint by threat.
  • v. To put under duress; to pressure.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.
  • n. The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense.
  • v. To subject to duress.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Hardness.
  • n. Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty; durance.
  • n. In law, actual or apprehended physical restraint so great as to amount to coercion: a species of fraud in which compulsion in some form takes the place of deception in accomplishing the injury.
  • To subject to duress or restraint; imprison.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. compulsory force or threat
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