Violence

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Physical force exerted for the purpose of violating, damaging, or abusing: crimes of violence.
  • n. The act or an instance of violent action or behavior.
  • n. Intensity or severity, as in natural phenomena; untamed force: the violence of a tornado.
  • n. Abusive or unjust exercise of power.
  • n. Abuse or injury to meaning, content, or intent: do violence to a text.
  • n. Vehemence of feeling or expression; fervor.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Extreme force.
  • n. Action intended to cause destruction, pain, or suffering.
  • n. Widespread fighting.
  • n. Injustice, wrong.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force.
  • n. Injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault.
  • n. Ravishment; rape; constupration.
  • v. To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The state or character of being violent; force; vehemence; intensity.
  • n. Highly excited feeling or action; impetuosity; vehemence; eagerness.
  • n. Injury done to anything which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; violation. See the phrases below.
  • n. Unjust or unwarranted exertion of power; unjust force; force employed against rights, laws, liberty, or the like; outrage; injury; hurt; attack; assault.
  • n. Ravishment; rape
  • n. 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.
  • n. The overcoming or preventing of resistance by exciting fear through display of force.
  • n. The unlawful use of physical force.
  • n. Synonyms 1 and 2. Passion, fury, flerceness, wildness, rage, boisterousness.
  • To do violence to; assault; injure.
  • To bring by violence; compel.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
  • n. a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.
  • n. the property of being wild or turbulent
  • Antonym
    gentleness   
    Hypernym
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    force   
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    cruelty    crime    fury    passion    terror    abuse    destruction    conflict    threat    outrage