KODAK Digital Still Camera
KODAK Digital Still Camera
KODAK Digital Still Camera
KODAK Digital Still Camera
KODAK Digital Still Camera
duress
[doo–res, dyoo-, doo r-is, dyoo r-]
Spell Syllables
1.
compulsion by threat or force; coercion;constraint.
2.
Law. such constraint or coercion as will rendervoid a contract or other legal act entered orperformed under its influence.
3.
forcible restraint, especially imprisonment.
Origin of duressExpand
1275-1325
1275-1325; Middle English duresse < Middle Frenchduresse, -esce, -ece < Latin dūritia hardness,harshness, oppression, equivalent to dūr (us) hard + -itia -ice
SynonymsExpand
1. intimidation, pressure, bullying, browbeating
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