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    duress - Dictionary definition and meaning for word duress

    Definition
    (noun) compulsory force or threat
    Example Sentence
    • confessed under duress
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for duress

u + dress; that is u enforce your wife to put on a particular dress.

Remember "durex". U r forced and restrained to use a condom to safeguard urself from STDs

UNDUE STRESS

dure means hard like in endure.. so duress also means hard condition thats forcible..

Duress rhymes with 'stress'

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DURess(logon se dur)..when you are away rom people, you are in duress

duress - darr se

DUring REStraint->DURESS:when u say somebody did something under DURESS u mean that they did it during a period of restraint and thus, were forced to do it

do+stress = duress

Duress= Do + rest..> Your boss got a job of completing 10 files and he threats you by saying I will do one, you do the rest.

He put her under DURESS to DO LESS Curse

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