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What does duress mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word duress? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (obsolete) Harsh treatment.
  2. Constraint by threat.
  3. (law) 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.
Verb
  1. To put under duress; to pressure.
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