different between abduct vs duress

English

Etymology

From Latin abductus, perfect passive participle of abduco (“to lead away”), from ab (“away”) + duco (“to lead”).

• (physiology): Back-formation from abduction.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æb?d?kt/, /æb?d?kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

abduct (third-person singular simple present abducts, present participle abducting, simple past and past participle abducted)

1. (transitive) To take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap. [Early 17^th century.]

2. (transitive, anatomy) To draw away, as a limb or other part, from the median axis of the body. [Early 17^th century.]

Synonyms

• carry off
• drag away
• kidnap
• run away with
• seize
• spirit away
• stretch
• take away

Antonyms

• adduct
• reinstate
• restore

Derived terms

• abductee
• abductive

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References

English

Etymology

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French duresse, from Latin duritia (“hardness”), from durus (“hard”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dj????s/, /d??????s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /du???s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Noun

duress (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Harsh treatment.
   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

     The agreements […] made with the landlords during the time of slavery, are only the effect of duress and force.

2. Constraint by threat.
3. (law) 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.

Related terms

• endure

Translations

Verb

duress (third-person singular simple present duresses, present participle duressing, simple past and past participle duressed)

1. To put under duress; to pressure.

   Someone was duressing her.

   The small nation was duressed into giving up territory.

Anagrams

• Druses, Suders, druses, sudser