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duress

/doo-res, dyoo-, door-is, dyoor-/US // dʊˈrɛs, dyʊ-, ˈdʊər ɪs, ˈdyʊər- //UK // (djʊˈrɛs, djʊə-) //

胁迫,逼迫,胁迫性,胁迫症

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Definitions

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

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Examples

  • Yet opponents argue it would increase unemployment because higher wages would force small businesses, already under economic duress because of the pandemic, to lay off employees.

  • They subsisted on ammonia instead of water and could employ limited telepathic abilities under duress.

  • If you quit under duress, that’s one thing, but it sounds like you worked together and you repeatedly said no.

  • With the health-care system under increasing duress and deaths surging, some say it was too little too late.

  • While the courts admit wills made under certain kinds of duress, they also recognize more whimsical estate planning if the wording is unambiguous.

  • There were reports that she wanted to leave the show, and was acting under duress.

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

  • “Yes, he appears calm and collected but he is clearly stressed and doing this under duress,” the source says.

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

  • “I wrote it under duress and hated the ending,” he said last week.

  • Charles the Ninth and Catharine had consented to publish a declaration denying Cond's allegation that they were held in duress.

  • She was brought to me, and put in duress under charge of the division surgeon until her companion could be secured.

  • Often they treated agreements entered into with the Order as contracts signed under duress.

  • So Sir Percival performed that adventure of setting free the duress of the castle of Beaurepaire.

  • No one who has any regard for freedom of elections can look upon these governments, forced upon them in duress, with any favor.