duress

Meaning of duress

noun
  1. Harsh treatment.
  2. Constraint by threat.
  3. 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.
verb
  1. To put under duress; to pressure.
    Someone was duressing her.

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Hyphenation of duress

duress

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • duress is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Anagrams of duress

Druses, druses, sudser

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