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Compulsion; coercion
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duress
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Word definitions for duress in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE economic ▪ Would it now be regarded as economic duress ? ■ VERB make ▪ In other words, we are of opinion that the payment was made under duress . ▪ Payments thus demanded colore officii are regarded by the law as ...
Usage examples of duress.
Reserves of understanding dwindled under duress, were pared down by despondency or depression.
The treaty thus extorted from their leaders, while in a state of duress, was disregarded by the great body of the nation.
Only a handful refused to do so, claiming that the election was held under duress and therefore invalid.
Such an one is he, and I will tame him with harshness and duress till I be certain of him.
One member of the House of Peers, Sawada Ushimaro, a former Home Ministry official, resisted this duress with unusual passion.
He rehearsed the history of physical intimidation during 1789, which made it evident that all his professions of devotion to the people of Paris had only been made under duress and the need to safeguard the lives of his family.
Mark Kemper was aware, from what Ellery Cotswold had told him under duress, that he would have to enter the smuggled art headquarters blindfolded.
Nothing I have ever seen can compare to it, unless it be the seas roiling under the duress of the Master of the Straits.
No sooner had the last petrified reveler fled into the Xeriscape garden or onto the thick green lawn, than the remaining vigas began to pop and crackle under duress and, as the horrified onlookers looked on, the sleazeball trophy manor began to quiver.
An agreement made under duress will be held perfectly valid by either the Stath or the Ursoids, who use force whenever it appears profitable.
The underwool from the yearlings or the ewes was equally soft, but not as strong under duress.
On the other hand, given the facts of a situation containing elements of duress, in other words of various pressures from family, friends and the community which a minor finds himself unable to resist, he has in effect been given a choice of evils by the defendant, and while his conduct may indicate his consent, the facts in the situation may persuade us otherwise.
Snyder had obviously warned his newest faculty member about Buffy Summers, the notorious troublemaker he had expelled and then readmitted under duress.
What a man suffers when he is a prisoner and a slave, under duress, cannot be held against him.
By competency they mean was I of sound mind and body, and under no duress, such as being held captive by the Symbionese Liberation Army.