duress
nounDefinition of duress
law
1
: forcible restraint or restriction
while the German army was still held in duress by the Versailles treaty— S. L. A. Marshall
2
: compulsion (see compulsion sense 1a) by threat
gave the statement under duress
specifically
: unlawful constraint
held under duress
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