duress

noun · verbA2

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Danh từ

noun

1.
(obsolete, uncountable)Harsh treatment.
2.
(uncountable)Constraint by threat.
3.
(uncountable)(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.

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verb

V_es/s

duresses

V_ing/Gerund

duressing

V_ed/pp

duressed

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

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Cùng gốc / liên quan

duress of circumstancesduress passwordendure

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Nguồn gốc từ

Middle English duresse, from Old French duresse, from Latin dūritia (hardness), from dūrus (hard).