Duress

Definition: Duress

Duress

Noun

1. Compulsory force or threat; "confessed under duress".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "duress" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Military & Defense

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Compulsion

Noun: compulsion, coercion, coaction, constraint, duress, enforcement, press, conscription.

Restraint

Confinement; durance, duress; imprisonment; incarceration, coarctation, entombment, mancipation, durance vile, limbo, captivity; blockade.

Crosswords: Duress

I have since heard of people under extreme duress speaking in strange tongues. (A Christmas Story; writing credit: Leigh Brown; Bob Clark)

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Books

• Duress, coercion, and necessity (reference)

• Duress, undue influence, and unconscientious bargains (reference)

• No Duress (reference)

• Stalin's Lieutenants: A Study of Command Under Duress (reference)

• Under Duress (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Ecstacy Under Duress [LIVE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Civil Liberties

Russia

Gusinskiy insisted publicly that he had signed under duress, citing a protocol to the agreement that was cosigned by Press Minister Mikhail Lesin. (references)

Economic History

Czech Republic

Under obvious Soviet duress, they were compelled to sign a treaty that provided for the "temporary stationing" of an unspecified number of Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia. (references)

Human Rights

India

Also, confessions extracted under duress are admissible as evidence. (references)

Political Economy

Solomon Islands

Following their takeover of the capital, the Malaitan militants forced the then-Prime Minister, Bartholomew Ulufa'alu, to resign, and Parliament chose a new Prime Minister, Manasseh Sogavare, under duress. (references)

Western Sahara

An attorney for the youths also alleged that the judicial police investigating the affair committed several illegal acts by unlawfully entering homes of the accused and detaining them, torturing them during their detention, and forcing them under duress to sign police reports, which they were not allowed to read and which contained falsehoods. (references)

Political Rights

Solomon Islands

Parliament selected a new Prime Minister, Manasseh Sogavare, under duress. (references)

Worker Rights

Japan

A government-funded study released in August 2000 found that nearly two-thirds of foreign women surveyed following arrests for immigration offenses stated that they were working in the sex industry under duress. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "duress": act under duress ♦ sexual duress. Additional references.

Albanian

detyrim (bond, burden, charge, compulsion, constraint, enforcement, imposition, liability, must, obligation), burgim (committal, confinement, Durance, immurement, imprisonment, incarceration, jail). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حبس (confine, confinement, constraint, crib, custody, gaol, imprison, imprisonment, jail, lockup, mewl, occlude, prison, sequester, sequestration, shut), ‏ضغط (bear in mind, compress, compressing, compression, crowd, depress, force, hustle, jam, lay stress on smth., lean, lobby, lobbying, pinch, press, pressure, push, screw, smash, squeeze, strain, stress, telescope, tension), ‏إكراه (coercion, compulsion, constraint, force, servitude), ‏إحتجاز إجباري. (various references)

Bulgarian 

затвор (bastille, bondage, calaboose, can, choky, clink, confinement, gaol, hold, jail, jug, kitty, limbo, lock, lockup, mew, pen, penitentiary, pokey, pound, prison, prison house, quod, shop, shut off, shutter, shuttle, stockade, stopper), лишаване от свобода, принуда (bondage, coercion, constraint, force, lash, necessity, pressure, squeeze). (various references)

Chinese 

束缚 (Binding, Chained, Chaining, Pinioned, Pinioning, Strapped, strapping). (various references)

Czech

uvìznìní (immurement, imprisonment, incarceration). (various references)

Farsi 

محکمی , سفتی (Inflexibility, Rigidity, Solidity, Tenacity, Tension), سختی (Accolade, Austerity, Buckram, Difficulty, Duration, Granite, Hardship, Implacability, Inflexibility, Privation, Resistance, Rigidity, Severity, Solidity, Stress, Tenacity, Violence), اکراه (Grudge, Reluctance), اجبار (Coercion, Cogency, Compulsion, Constraint, Persuasion), رفتارخشن وتند, شدت (Acrimony, Extremity, Gravity, Intensity, Severity, Stringency, Vehemence, Violence). (various references)

French

contrainte. (various references)

German

Nötigung (coercion, compulsion, constraint, necessitation, needfulness). (various references)

Greek 

περιορισμόσ (confinement, constraint, containment, curbing, limitation, restraint, restriction, stint), φυλάκιση (commitment, confinement, custody, immurement, imprisonment, incarceration), εξαναγκασμόσ (coercion, compulsion, constraint, necessitation), απειλή (menace, threat, threatening). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחץ (compulsion, distress, force, oppression, press, pressure, stress), א� ס (compulsion, rape, violation, violence), כורח (compulsion, necessity), כפי�" (coercion, compulsion, constraint, enforcement, force, overturning), �"וחק (density, exigency, importunate, penury, pressure, squash, stress). (various references)

Hungarian

kényszer (coercion, cogency, compulsion, constraint, force, pressure, urge), fizikai kényszer (constraint), bebörtönzés (immurement, imprisonment, incarceration). (various references)

Indonesian

paksaan (compulsion). (various references)

Italian

prigionia (bond, confinement, imprisonment), costrizione (astriction, compulsion, constraint, enforcement, force), coazione (coaction). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

強迫 (compelling, using duress). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きょうはく (coercion, compelling, menace, terrorism, threat, using duress). (various references)

Manx

pryssoonys (durance, imprisonment, internment, prison sentence), egin (compulsion, constraint, emergency, necessity, rape, stress). (various references)

Pig Latin

uressday

Portuguese

prisão (accouchement, apprehension, arrest, bastille, bond, cage, captivity, choky, confinement, constrained, custody, detention, entanglement, ewer, gaol, jail, jug, limbo, noose, pokey, prison, quad, quod), aprisionamento (capture, imprisonment). (various references)

Russian 

лишение свободы. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prinuda (coercion, compulsion, constraint, force). (various references)

Spanish

coacción (coercion, compulsion). (various references)

Swedish

tvång (coercion, compulsion, constraint, force, necessity), fångenskap (captivity, confinement, imprisonment), fängsligt förvar. (various references)

Turkish

zorlama (arm-twisting, coaction, coercion, compulsion, constraint, enforcement, force, impellent, pressure, push, screw, strain, urge, violence), tutuklama (apprehension, arrest, arrestment, caption, cop, detention, pinch), hapis (charge, confinement, gaol, imprisonment, jail, prison), baskı (arm-twisting, coaction, coercion, compulsion, constraint, crackdown, crush, discipline, edition, force, heat, impression, leverage, oppression, piezo-, press, press up, pressure, print, printing, repression, restraint, screw, squeeze, stress, suppression, the press, thrust, typographic, urgency), şantaj (blackmail, blackmailing, racket, racketeering, shakedown). (various references)

Turkmen 

nalaз (forced, under duress, unintentionally). (various references)

Ukrainian

ув'язнення (confinement, constraint, custody, duresse, gaol, imprisonment, incarceration, jail, ward), примус (coercion, compulsion, constraint, duresse, oil stove, primus). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự cầm tù sự cưỡng ép (duresse), sự câu thúc (cramp, duresse, fetter), sự ép buộc (coercion, compulsion, constraint, duresse, obtrusion, pressure). (various references)

duritia. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "duress": duresses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Duress" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ddress, dereso, deress, diress, Dores, doress, dorsers, drues, Duessa, duras, durays, durazzo, dures, durest, durges, Duris, duros, Durras, durs, Dursch, durse, D'urso, durus, dutess. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: druses, sudser.

-1 letter: dress, druse, dures, ruses, suers, surds, users.

-2 letters: dues, dure, reds, rude, rued, rues, ruse, sers, suds, sued, suer, sues, surd, sure, urds, used, user, uses.

-3 letters: due, eds, ers, ess, red, res, rue, ser, sue, urd, use.

-4 letters: de, ed, er, es, re, us.

+1 letter: assured, dousers, dusters, sudsers, sudsier, sunders, trussed, undress.

+2 letters: assureds, burseeds, crusades, danseurs, dasyures, desirous, desugars, diestrus, disburse, diureses, diuresis, dourness, druidess, duresses, fissured, graduses, insureds, outdress, oversuds, predusks, radiuses, reissued, residues, resounds, rosebuds, rudeness, seducers, shudders, sounders, spudders, strudels, studiers, sturdies, subduers, subsider, sudaries, sundress, sundries, surbased, surmised, suspired.

+3 letters: absurdest, adjusters, assuredly, beshrouds, burnsides, chorussed, crudeness, crusaders, crusadoes, cuirassed, curbsides, cursedest, debruises, degausser, delousers, delusters, destructs, desulfurs, diestrous, diestrums, diffusers, disbursed, disburser, disburses, discourse, discusser, disguiser, disposure, disputers, dissuader, dumpsters, enshrouds, laundress, luridness, murderess, outsiders, percussed, persuades, pressured, readjusts, reassumed, reassured, rediscuss, residuals, residuums, restudies, roundness, ruddiness, rudesbies, russified, sardiuses, sederunts, shoulders, sideburns, smoulders, sodbuster, sourdines, squanders, studhorse, sturdiest, subbreeds, suberised, subgrades, submersed, suborders, subserved, subsiders, subtrends, sunderers, superadds, supersede, superstud, surceased, surpassed, surprised, suspender, transudes, uncrossed, underboss, underpass, underseas, undersets, undressed, undresses, unpressed, unsolders, untrussed.