Clues for the word "DURESS"
We've had 59 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 143 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Quick crossword on October 30, 2025.
Definition of duress
- n. - Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.
- 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.
- v. t. - To subject to duress.
Referring Clues
- Coercion
- Compulsion by force
- Grounds for divorce, in some states
- Arm-twisting
- Pressure
- Bullying, e.g.
- Browbeating
- Bullying
- Difficult circumstances
- Confessions may be given under it
- Pressured people might be under it
- Compulsion by threat
- Force
- It can render a contract signature void
- Compulsory threat
- Threatening pressure
- Defense attorney's claim
- Compulsion
- Undue pressure
- Use of force
- Forcible restraint
- Forced restraint
- Grounds to void a confession
- Unlawful force or pressure
- Unlawful constraint
- Coercive conditions
- Coercion's kin, at law
- Compulsory force
- Threats
- Coercion by threat
- Illegal coercion
- Word from the Latin for "harshness"
- Constraint, force
- Great pressure
- Restraint
- Constraint
- Make toe the line, suppressing union by force
- Compulsion of top people to appear in formal attire?
- Pressure (involving threats)
- Force employs copper rehabilitating users
- Compulsion gets half of us stuck in curry
- Top drawer in attire, one is forced under it
- Imprisonment of the French soldiers on board ship
- Tip-off assured after torture and coercion
- ... pressure has Don also going round the bend
- Union leader caught in female clothing gets imprisonment
- Pressure garment protecting centre of wound
- Pressure bandage applied round top of ulcer
- Union leader in a frock shows pressure!
- Pressure shown by Posh enrobed?
- Arm-twisting, so to speak
- A shotgun wedding might be held under this
- The pressure to be uniform in attire
- Sweat inducer
- Being under it is threatening
- Undue force
- Bad thing to be under
- Unlawful coercion
- Extreme pressure
Last Seen In
- Daily Quick - October 30, 2025
- New York Times - October 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 09, 2025
- LA Times - September 06, 2025
- Daily American - August 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 15, 2025
- Daily American - February 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 28, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - September 17, 2024
- New York Times - August 09, 2024
- Daily Quick - August 02, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 09, 2024
- Mirror Mini - June 25, 2024
- Daily American - May 03, 2024
- Daily Quick - October 30, 2023
- LA Times - August 20, 2023
- Daily American - August 15, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - July 21, 2023
- Mirror Mini - June 25, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - April 18, 2023
- New York Times - February 16, 2023
- Daily American - February 13, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - February 03, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - November 22, 2022
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 20, 2022
- Daily Quick - August 02, 2022
- Mirror Mini - June 25, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - June 22, 2022
- Netword - January 13, 2018
- Universal - December 13, 2017
- And in 113 more crossword puzzles...