Synonyms for duress
dʊˈrɛs, dyʊ-, ˈdʊər ɪs, ˈdyʊər-duress

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1. duress

   Bonds may be of cord, leather, or any other substance that can bind; chains are of linked metal. Manacles and handcuffs are for the hands, fetters are primarily chains or jointed iron fastenings for the feet; gyves may be for either. A shackle is a metallic ring, clasp, or bracelet-like fastening for encircling and restraining a limb: commonly one of a pair, used either for hands or feet. Bonds, fetters, and chains are used in a general way for almost any form of restraint. Gyves is now wholly poetic, and the other words are mostly restricted to the literary style; handcuffs is the specific and irons the general term in popular usage; as, the prisoner was put in irons. Bonds, chains, and shackles are frequently used in the metaphorical sense.

   Synonyms:
   bondage, bonds, chains, custody, durance, fetter, gyves, handcuffs, imprisonment, irons, manacles, shackles

Princeton's WordNet

1. duressnoun

   compulsory force or threat

   "confessed under duress"

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1. duressnoun

   Synonyms:
   constraint, restraint, captivity, confinement, imprisonment, durance

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1. List of paraphrases for "duress":

   coercion, compulsion, constraint, coercive, stress

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1. Dennis Tajer:

   You had a system under duress already without enough pilots, this IT failure would have caused problems for the month of July if nothing had been done. We're cautiously optimistic that Robert Isom sees the value of working with us.

2. Tom Schueman:

   I think that was pretty tough for him in a lot of ways, because Zak joined with the US, allied with the US, essentially to have a more prosperous Afghanistan that he wanted to invest in, that he wanted to raise his family in, that he believed in, so, for him to make that decision to leave only came after like, significant duress, significant persecution … almost nightly death threats to his home.

3. Patrick Roberson:

   Will you quit? Obviously, Col. Davis showed, ‘I’m never going to quit. No matter what the odds, no matter how badly I’m hurt, I am not going to quit,’ the grit, determination, competence under extreme duress – I can’t say enough about what he did.

4. Ken Polcari:

   The market has been under complete duress for five or six days, the tone has been very ugly. Today it seems most things have calmed down, so buyers have started to step back in.

5. Ali Vaez:

   Iran is quite experienced in living under economic duress ... In the past few years, its non-oil exports have grown significantly and so has their trade with neighboring countries like Iraq and Afghanistan, iran can also smuggle oil and generate some revenue.