Wiktionary

duress

English

edit
 
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Etymology

edit

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

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

duress (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Harsh treatment.
  2. Constraint by threat.
    • 2023 October 17, Kim Willsher, “Mother of French-Israeli hostage begs for her return as Hamas releases video”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN:
      It is unclear when it was filmed and if she was under duress during filming.
  3. (law) 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.

Derived terms

edit
edit

Translations

edit
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Verb

edit

duress (third-person singular simple present duresses, present participle duressing, simple past and past participle duressed)

  1. To put under duress; to pressure.
    Someone was duressing her.
    The small nation was duressed into giving up territory.

Derived terms

edit

Anagrams

edit
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=duress&oldid=79811420"