different between dudess vs duress

English

Etymology

dude +? -ess.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d(j)u?d?s/
• Hyphenation: du?dess

Noun

dudess (plural dudesses)

1. A female dude.
   1. (dated) A cowgirl.
   2. A woman, generally a younger woman, especially one who is perceived to be cool or hip.

Synonyms

• dudette

Anagrams

• sudsed

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