Crossword-Solution: DURESS 6 letters, 65 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Duress	n.	Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.
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.
Duress	v. t.	To subject to duress.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
DURESS	anagram	DRUSES, RESUDS, SUDSER

We have 65 clues for the answer “DURESS”

Clue	Answers
Pressured people might be under it	1 answer
Compulsory threat	1 answer
Confession inducer, perhaps	1 answer
Confessions may be given under it	1 answer
Constraint, force	1 answer
Defense attorney's claim	1 answer
Difficult circumstances	1 answer
Forced restraint	1 answer
Forcible restraint	1 answer
Grounds for divorce, in some states	1 answer
Grounds to void a confession	1 answer
Illegal coercion	1 answer
Illegal force	1 answer
It can invalidate a signed contract	1 answer
It can invalidate the signature on a contract	1 answer
It can render a contract signature void	1 answer
Compulsory force	1 answer
Stressful thing to be under	1 answer
Threatening pressure	1 answer
Under ___ (being threatened)	1 answer
Under which Little Dorrit was born.	1 answer
Undue force	1 answer
Undue pressure	1 answer
Unlawful coercion	1 answer
Unlawful constraint	1 answer
Unlawful force or pressure	1 answer
Use of force	1 answer
What an interrogator may put somebody under	1 answer
Word from the Latin for "harshness"	1 answer
compulsory force or threat	1 answer
duresse	1 answer
Compulsion; coercion	1 answer
Compulsion by threat	1 answer
Compulsion by force	1 answer
Coercive conditions	1 answer
Coercion's kin, at law	1 answer
Coercion by threat	1 answer
Being under it is threatening	1 answer
Arm-twisting, so to speak	1 answer
A shotgun wedding might be held under this	1 answer
Bullying, e.g.	2 answers
Sweat inducer	2 answers
durance	3 answers
Arm-twisting	3 answers
BECOME void	10 answers
A HOSE THAT CARRIES AIR UNDER PRESSURE	10 answers
AN ACT OF FORCIBLE EXHALATION	10 answers
COLLAPSE UNDER PRESSURE	10 answers
AN ACT OF UNDUE INTIMACY	10 answers
CAUSED BY OR SUGGESTIVE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPULSION	10 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

RETAE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with DURESS (5)

Accompanying Phil Musgrave, under admitted duress to repay a previous favor, was Paul Trump, Director of NIST, the eternal rival of the NSA in matters of computers.

Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993

And the Franks cried: "Ah! Charlemagne, give help!" Wherefore the King much grief and pity felt, He'ld go to them but was in duress kept: Out of a wood came a great lion then, 'Twas very proud and fierce and terrible; His body dear sought out, and on him leapt, Each in his arms, wrestling, the other held; But he knew not which conquered, nor which fell.

The Song of Roland Anonymous 1996

Fear as the champion in the lists? In the present case, however, contrary to the rules of romance, the champion falls in duress and passes to the dungeon.

The Conquest of Canaan Booth Tarkington 1996

The treaty thus extorted from their leaders, while in a state of duress, was disregarded by the great body of the nation.

The Life of Francis Marion William Gilmore Simms 1997

The crowd without gave way, and several warriors entered the place, bringing with them the hapless conjurer, who had been left so long by the scout in duress.

The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper 1997

Quotes with DURESS (3)

She's under duress," Peaseblossom said." I don't care if she's under duress, over it, or alongside it," Moth said. "Nothing in this world supersedes cake.

Lisa Mantchev Eyes Like Stars

Sometimes customizing is necessary because of an injury or the inability to do, for a short or long period, the kind of exercise you formerly did. When you're used to customizing for fun, doing it under duress won't seem like such an imposition. Either way, experiment until you find activities that make you happy as well as healthy. Choose your exercise using the same criteria you'd apply to choosing a date--that is, attractive to you and able to hold your interest for an hour.

Victoria Moran Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit

I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.

Toni Morrison

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 121 times in crossword archives (1946–2025).