duress

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

Verb

To put under duress; to pressure.

Noun

1. (obsolete, uncountable) Harsh treatment.
2. (uncountable) Constraint by threat.
3. (uncountable) 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 of civil liability, of a citizen's arrest, or of subrogation, or illegally for the committing of an offense, of forcing a contract, or of using threats.

Έννοιες

φυλάκιση

περιορισμός

απειλή

εξαναγκασμός

Συνώνυμα

compulsion

imprisonment

confinement

coercion

restraint

pressure

constraint

durance

incarceration

force

custody

jittery

jumpy

leading edge

limitation

menace

necessitation

necessity

nervous

overwound

restriction

stint

terror

threat

threatening

trouble

wired

immurement

stress

violence

arm-twisting

like a cat on a hot tin roof

resty

bondage

laced-up

captivity

commitment

containment

curbing

cutting edge

difficulty

hardship

insistence

intimidation

isolation

Μεταφράσεις

coacción

contrainte

zorlama

cebir

costrizione

tazyik

icbar

dwang

Nötigung

baskı

verspannt

nerveux

coincé

crispé

scharfkantig

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/djʊˈɹɛs/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

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In summary

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