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; rapen. 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.