Duress is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 89 anagrams from letters in duress (derssu).
1275-1325; Middle English duresse Middle French duresse, -esce, -ece Latin dūritia hardness, harshness, oppression, equivalent to dūr(us) hard + -itia -ice
But the sense of duress surrounding the regime this time around seems especially pronounced.
Was she in duress either from this Ironhook or from her father, or from both?
He was in duress as a Leaguer spy, to await King Henry's will.
He considered himself as, in fact, in duress, and his actions as not free.
He was a mechanic, brought along under some duress to service the machine.
When the consent of either party was obtained by force, duress or fraud.
In moments of duress, a different self manifests with acts of destruction: unleashed id in Freudian, or Incredible Hulk, terms.
Under “fear, threats, and duress,” Egan says he signed the form, “a false declaration denying any childhood sexual abuse” by Doe.
She bade Hagen then be led away to duress, where he lay locked in and where none did see him.
The commission, extorted by force, is null and void when the duress is removed.