Thesaurus: duress

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1. n. Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.
2. 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.
3. v. t. To subject to duress.
4. n. compulsory force or threat
5. 1. Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty. The agreements . . . made with the landlords during the time of slavery, are only the effect of duress and force. Burke. 2. (Law) 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. To subject to duress. "The party duressed." Bacon.
6. The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person isinfluenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or byactual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability orto commit an offense.
7. n:100 n. compulsory force or threat