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duress
1. n. Contrainte.
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duress
1. n. (obsolete) Harsh treatment.
2. n. Constraint by threat.
3. n. (legal) 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 o
4. v. To put under duress; to pressure.
Someone was duressing her.
The small nation was duressed into giving up territory.

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Their case all along was that they were still acting under the force of the duress.  The nine had claimed they were acting under duress when they hijacked the plane.

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