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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats