duress

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   compulsory force or threat

   Confessed under duress.

2. 2
   noun

   Constraint by threat.

   It is unclear when it was filmed and if she was under duress during filming.

3. 3
   verb

   To put under duress; to pressure.

   Someone was duressing her.

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French duresse, from Latin duritia (“hardness”), from durus (“hard”).

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