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Duress :: Duress (n.) Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.

Duressor :: Duressor (n.) One who subjects another to dures.

Duress :: Duress (n.) The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense..

Extort :: Extort (v. t.) To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt..

Duress :: Duress (v. t.) To subject to duress.

Durance :: Durance (n.) Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak.

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