Distress vs. Duress
Difference Between Distress and Duress
Distressnoun
(Cause of) discomfort.
Duressnoun
(obsolete) Harsh treatment.
Distressnoun
Serious danger.
Duressnoun
Constraint by threat.
Distressnoun
(legal) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
Duressnoun
(legal) Restraint 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.
Distressnoun
(legal) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
Duressverb
To put under duress; to pressure.
Someone was duressing her.The small nation was duressed into giving up territory.Distressverb
To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
Duressnoun
compulsory force or threat;
confessed under duressDistressverb
(legal) To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
Distressverb
To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age.
a pair of distressed jeansShe distressed the new media cabinet so that it fit with the other furniture in the room.Distressnoun
psychological suffering;
the death of his wife caused him great distressDistressnoun
a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need);
a ship in distressshe was the classic maiden in distressDistressnoun
extreme physical pain;
the patient appeared to be in distressDistressnoun
the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim;
Originally distress was a landloard's remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents or property damage but now the landlord is given a landlord's lienDistressverb
cause mental pain to;
The news of her child's illness distressed the mother
