Definitions for duresses

duresses du·ress

Spelling: [doo-res, dyoo-, doo r<
IPA: /dʊˈrɛs, dyʊ-, ˈdʊər ɪs, ˈdyʊər-/

Duresses is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 132 anagrams from letters in duresses (deersssu).

Definitions for duresses

noun

  1. compulsion by threat or force; coercion; constraint.
  2. Law. such constraint or coercion as will render void a contract or other legal act entered or performed under its influence.
  3. forcible restraint, especially imprisonment.

Origin of duresses

1275-1325; Middle English duresse Middle French duresse, -esce, -ece Latin dūritia hardness, harshness, oppression, equivalent to dūr(us) hard + -itia -ice

Examples for duresses

But the sense of duress surrounding the regime this time around seems especially pronounced.

In moments of duress, a different self manifests with acts of destruction: unleashed id in Freudian, or Incredible Hulk, terms.

She bade Hagen then be led away to duress, where he lay locked in and where none did see him.

He considered himself as, in fact, in duress, and his actions as not free.

Under “fear, threats, and duress,” Egan says he signed the form, “a false declaration denying any childhood sexual abuse” by Doe.

The commission, extorted by force, is null and void when the duress is removed.

Was she in duress either from this Ironhook or from her father, or from both?

When the consent of either party was obtained by force, duress or fraud.

He was a mechanic, brought along under some duress to service the machine.

He was in duress as a Leaguer spy, to await King Henry's will.

Word Value for duresses
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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