Duress vs Constrain - What's the difference?
duress | constrain |
(obsolete) Harsh treatment.
* Burke
Constraint by threat.
(legal) The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restraint of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offence.
To put under ; to pressure.
To force physically, by strong persuasion or pressurizing; to compel; to oblige.
To keep within close bounds; to confine.
To reduce a result in response to limited resources.
As verbs the difference between duress and constrain
is that duress is to put under ; to pressure while constrain is to force physically, by strong persuasion or pressurizing; to compel; to oblige.As a noun duress
is (obsolete) harsh treatment.duress
English
Noun
(-)- The agreements made with the landlords during the time of slavery, are only the effect of duress and force.
Verb
(es)- Someone was duressing her.
- The small nation was duressed into giving up territory.