DURESS
\djʊ͡əɹˈɛs], \djʊəɹˈɛs], \d_j_ʊə_ɹ_ˈɛ_s]\
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Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.
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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.
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To subject to duress.
By Oddity Software
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Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.
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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.
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To subject to duress.
By Noah Webster.
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Restraint of personal liberty by fear or physical force; the compelling a person to do some act; as, the man had committed the act under duress and therefore escaped severe punishment; imprisonment.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Constraint; compulsion; imprisonment. duresse.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Latin] Hardship; constraint; imprisonment;—restraint of liberty.
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