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duress | undueinfluence |

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.

    Anagrams

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    undueinfluence

    Not English

    Undueinfluence has no English definition. It may be misspelled.