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DURESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does duress mean?
• DURESS (noun)
The noun DURESS has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: DURESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Compulsory force or threat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context example:
confessed under duress
Hypernyms ("duress" is a kind of...):
force (a powerful effect or influence)
Context examples
Symptoms indicative of a state of duress to a fetus while in utero.
(Fetal Distress, NCI Thesaurus)
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