noun
Meaning 1
Harsh treatment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
duress
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /djʊˈɹɛs/
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UK: /d͡ʒʊˈɹɛs/
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US: /duˈɹɛs/
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US: /dəˈɹɛs/
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rhymes with -ɛs
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CMU ARPABET: D UH1 R EH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Constraint by threat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: law
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To put under duress; to pressure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Someone was duressing her.
- The small nation was duressed into giving up territory.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
compulsory force or threat
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- confessed under duress
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: force
History
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English duresse, from Old French duresse, from Latin dūritia (“hardness”), from dūrus (“hard”).
Across languages
Translations
35 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: прыму́с (prymús) — constraint by threat
- Belarusian: прыну́ка (prynúka) — constraint by threat
- Bulgarian: принуда (prinuda) — constraint by threat
- Czech: nátlak — constraint by threat
- Czech: donucení — constraint by threat
- Czech: pohrůžka — constraint by threat
- Danish: tvang — constraint by threat
- Dutch: dwang — constraint by threat
- Finnish: painostus — constraint by threat
- Finnish: pakottaminen — constraint by threat
- French: contrainte — constraint by threat
- German: Zwang — constraint by threat
- German: Nötigung — constraint by threat
- Italian: coazione — constraint by threat
- Norwegian Bokmål: tvang — constraint by threat
- Persian: اکراه — constraint by threat
- Portuguese: pressão — constraint by threat
- Portuguese: coerção — constraint by threat
- Romanian: obligare prin forță — constraint by threat
- Romanian: constrângere — constraint by threat
- Russian: принужде́ние (prinuždénije) — constraint by threat
- Russian: давле́ние (davlénije) — constraint by threat
- Scottish Gaelic: èiginn — constraint by threat
- Spanish: coacción — constraint by threat
- Swedish: tvång — constraint by threat
- Ukrainian: при́мус (prýmus) — constraint by threat
- Ukrainian: зму́шування (zmúšuvannja) — constraint by threat
- Belarusian: зняво́ленне (znjavóljennje) — confinement; imprisonment
- Finnish: vankeus — confinement; imprisonment
- Finnish: vanginta — confinement; imprisonment
- Italian: confino — confinement; imprisonment
- Italian: prigionia — confinement; imprisonment
- Russian: заточе́ние (zatočénije) — confinement; imprisonment
- Russian: тюре́мное заключе́ние (tjurémnoje zaključénije) — confinement; imprisonment
- Ukrainian: ув'я́знення (uvʺjáznennja) — confinement; imprisonment