Violence

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  • noun. Behavior or treatment in which physical force is exerted for the purpose of causing damage or injury.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Intense force or great power, as in natural phenomena.
  • noun. Extreme or powerful emotion or expression.
  • noun. Distortion of meaning or intent.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state or character of being violent; force; vehemence; intensity.
  • noun. Highly excited feeling or action; impetuosity; vehemence; eagerness.
  • noun. Injury done to anything which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; violation. See the phrases below.
  • noun. Unjust or unwarranted exertion of power; unjust force; force employed against rights, laws, liberty, or the like; outrage; injury; hurt; attack; assault.
  • noun. Ravishment; rape
  • noun. In law: Any wrongful act of one person, whereby either he or his instrument of wrong-doing is brought into contact with the limbs or body of another person.
  • noun. The overcoming or preventing of resistance by exciting fear through display of force.
  • noun. The unlawful use of physical force.
  • noun. Synonyms 1 and 2. Passion, fury, flerceness, wildness, rage, boisterousness.
  • To do violence to; assault; injure.
  • To bring by violence; compel.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel.
  • noun. The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force.
  • noun. Injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault.
  • noun. Ravishment; rape; constupration.
  • noun. to attack; to murder.
  • noun. to outrage; to injure.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Extreme force.
  • noun. Action intended to cause destruction, pain, or suffering.
  • noun. Widespread fighting.
  • noun. Injustice, wrong.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
  • noun. a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.
  • noun. the property of being wild or turbulent
  • Word Usage
    "More media coverage around domestic violence in order to “break the silence and stop the violence”."
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