Definitions
1.nounHarsh treatment.
2.nounConstraint by threat.
3.nounRestraint in which a person is influenced, whether by lawful or unlawful forceful compulsion of their liberty by monition or implementation of physical enforcement; legally for the incurring of civil liability, of a citizen's arrest, or of subrogation, or illegally for the committing of an offense, of forcing a contract, or of using threats.
4.verbTo put under duress; to pressure."Someone was duressing her."