Associations to the word «Duress»

Wiktionary

DURESS, noun. (obsolete) Harsh treatment.
DURESS, noun. Constraint by threat.
DURESS, noun. (legal) The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restraint of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offence.
DURESS, verb. To put under duress; to pressure.

Dictionary definition

DURESS, noun. Compulsory force or threat; "confessed under duress".

Wise words

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Friedrich Nietzsche