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- Dictionaryduress/djʊˈrɛs/
noun
- 1. threats, violence, constraints, or other action used to coerce someone into doing something against their will or better judgement: "confessions extracted under duress"
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DURESS definition: 1. threats used to force a person to do something: 2. threats used to force a person to do…. Learn more.
Duress is most often paired with the word under to refer to force or threats meant to make someone do something. For example, someone forced to sign a document signs it “under duress,” and a person held “under duress” is not free to leave but is being constrained, usually unlawfully.
DURESS meaning: 1. threats used to force a person to do something: 2. threats used to force a person to do…. Learn more.
3 meanings: 1. compulsion by use of force or threat; constraint; coercion (often in the phrase under duress) 2. law the illegal.... Click for more definitions.
Duress definition: compulsion by threat or force; coercion; constraint.. See examples of DURESS used in a sentence.
First used to describe harsh or cruel treatment, duress soon took on the additional meaning of forcing someone to do something, usually through threats. Duress is typically used with the word under, as in a suspect who only signs a confession because he is under duress.
n. 1. compulsion by threat or force. 2. constraint or coercion of a degree sufficient to void any legal agreement entered into or any act performed under its influence. 3. forcible restraint, esp. imprisonment.
duress. noun. /djuˈres/. /duˈres/. [uncountable] (formal) threats or force that are used to make somebody do something. He signed the confession under duress. The promise was obtained by duress on the part of her husband.
If you do something under duress, you do it because someone is forcing you to: The confession was made under duress. (Definition of duress from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
duress meaning, definition, what is duress: illegal or unfair threats: Learn more.
