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Direst vs Duress - What's the difference?

direst | duress |

As an adjective direst

is superlative of dire.

As a noun duress is

harsh treatment.

As a verb duress is

to put under duress; to pressure.

direst

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (dire)

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    dire

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
  • Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
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    • , title= It's a gas , passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains.
  • Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.
  • (label) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 10, author=Arindam Rej, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Norwich 4-2 Newcastle , passage=A second Norwich goal in four minutes arrived after some dire Newcastle defending. Gosling gave the ball away with a sloppy back-pass, allowing Crofts to curl in a cross that the unmarked Morison powered in with a firm, 12-yard header.}}

    Quotations

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    Derived terms

    * direful * direly * direness * dire sisters * dire straits * dire wolf

    See also

    * voir dire

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    duress

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Harsh treatment.
  • * Burke
    • The agreements made with the landlords during the time of slavery, are only the effect of duress and force.
  • Constraint by threat.
  • (legal) The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restraint of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offence.

    • Verb

    (es)
  • To put under ; to pressure.
    • Someone was duressing her.
    The small nation was duressed into giving up territory.

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