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Intimidation vs Duress - What's the difference?

intimidation | duress |

As nouns the difference between intimidation and duress

is that intimidation is the act of making timid or fearful or of deterring by threats; the state of being intimidated; as, the voters were kept from the polls by intimidation while duress is (obsolete) harsh treatment.

As a verb duress is

to put under ; to pressure.

intimidation

English

Noun

(intimidations)
  • The act of making timid or fearful or of deterring by threats; the state of being intimidated; as, the voters were kept from the polls by intimidation.

    • Related terms

    * intimidate * intimidating * intimidatingly

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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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