Duress is valid Scrabble Word

Is duress a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is duress valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
7 points in Scrabble
8 points in WWF

Definitions for DURESS in dictionary:

VERB:

To subject to duress.

NOUN:

compulsion by force, also DURESSE
threats, violence, constraints, or other action used to coerce someone into doing something against their will or better judgement
constraint illegally exercised to force someone to perform an act.
forcible restraint or imprisonment.
compulsion by use of force or threats
Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.
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.
compulsory force or threat

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

compulsion by threat

Words related to DURESS

duresse8 duresses9

Words that contain DURESS

duresse8 duresses9

How to use DURESS in a sentence

And there I heard her denounced as witch, by whose spells thou, lord Beltane, wert freed of thy duress and Garthlaxton utterly destroyed.
While its owners or their agents hesitated, Captain Elliot, the British Superintendent of Trade, came up from Macao, and demanded to share the duress of his nationals.
Even if by agreement she admitted the violation of her neutrality, it is clear she could only do so under duress.
She was six years his senior, and he had been betrothed to her under duress at his eleventh year.
He stepped up to the men at the door, and demanded in a peremptory manner by what authority they were holding that man in duress.
CHAPTER III Brent had no intention of keeping the promise which Balcom had extracted from him by a species of moral duress that afternoon.
Such treatment the Belgians have given to the Germans, except that they furnished the shelter and harnessed the team under duress, as they so specifically indicate by every act.
Shaw and his companion in duress led forth from the sleeping quarters which they had shared with their captors.
Any promise made to his subjects Charles regarded as a promise made under duress which he was quite justified in breaking whenever it suited his purpose to do so.
In the absence of a gaol, the Vigilants were known to keep a culprit in duress by shutting him up for the night in a sea-chest, ventilated by means of gimlet-holes.

During all this time Dame Clackett cried out loudly, and in the confusion her chair was upset, and she became liberated from her duress.
In a bower of leaf and vine Thou shalt be a lady fine Held in duress by the great Giant I shall personate.
No one who has any regard for freedom of elections can look upon those governments, forced upon them in duress, with any favor.

Similar words containing DURES without suffix s

dures6 duresse8 endures8 obdures10 ordures8 bordures11 duresses9 outdures9 perdures11 rondures9 verdures12 coendures12 roundures10 engendures12 procedures15 reioyndures15 rejoindures19 supersedures15

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