音标:[djuə'res] ;
n.
强迫,胁迫;强制
(非法)监禁,囚禁;限制,束缚
短语:
a plea of duress(e)
【法律】以被胁迫为理由请求取消契约(或遗嘱等)的申辩

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air impact wrench
artesian discharge
auxiliary stop valve
bartholdis
blocking bias
Cantor pairing function
casbah
chilliset
Chutia
collopy
consensualities
Coonana
currentnesses
damage appraisal
design by committee
detection of water level
detective-inspector
DIASOMA
disabled dependant allowance
divinyl sulfide
elementary schools
endoscopic injection therapy
English positives
exposed view
fitting up inspection
FJD
forehocks
Fornet's ring tests
fringed micelle
gamma hydroxybutyrate
gas partition process
glove side
gold-pink
Goleszów
Gonyocephalus
governor pressure oil
grove cell
gumbleton
Hawaii County
high speed skip
higher-order predicate logic
homotypical
hourglasses
hyperbass flute
hysteresis steel
industrial porcelain
infinitesimal unitary transformation
inherent frequency
interstitial disease
low-Clinoenstatite
low-farer
m'
magnetic field strength anisotropy factor
mask aligner
mechanics of vibration
meet head-on
mellibiasa
multi-cavity molding die
multiple farrowing
nafetolol
Nasoulé
nearly-perfect
neurolipomatosis dolorosa
neurophysiological therapy
non-scaling alloy
Novobirilyussy
oghamic
OVTR
paint finish
Pampanga R.
perforated screen scourer
permanent finishing
plane stagnation flow in transpiration cooling
Poisson's ratio
postcolonial research
pressure back
Primulina
rain sth off
re-occlude
relative dead center
repossessed properties in retail
request call
second-ranks
semihugs
six-fold ring
split sentence
spool element
Star Trekkish
Stockholm syndrome
sucr-
superrepressed mutant
texture fill
tunny catcher
turn formation
typical variety
undergraduate program (up)
underground drain
Vištytis
warming kidney for dispelling cold
wind papules
wiod
Wohl expansion