duress

FREQ #22507

n. 强迫, 监禁 [法] 强迫, 威胁, 监禁

发音

UK /djʊˈɹɛs/
其它
UK /d͡ʒʊˈɹɛs/
US /duˈɹɛs/

词形变化

duressed duresses 三单 duresses duressing duressing 现在分词 duressed 过去式 duressed 过去分词

别名

duresse

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Harsh treatment.

    废旧 不可数
  2. 2.

    Constraint by threat.

    不可数
  3. 3.

    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.

    不可数 法律
v.
  1. 1.

    To put under duress; to pressure.

    Someone was duressing her.

    The small nation was duressed into giving up territory.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

force

相关短语

duress of circumstances

词源

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French duresse, from Latin duritia (“hardness”), from durus (“hard”).

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