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Noun
/ˈvī(ə)ləns/,
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Behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something,
  1. Behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something

  2. Strength of emotion or an unpleasant or destructive natural force
    • - the violence of her own feelings
  3. The unlawful exercise of physical force or intimidation by the exhibition of such force


  1. an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists); "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one"
  2. ferocity: the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence"
  3. a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.
  4. (violent) fierce: marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid; "fierce loyalty"; "in a tearing rage"; "vehement dislike"; "violent passions"
  5. (violent) crimson: characterized by violence or bloodshed; "writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke; "fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing"- Thomas Gray; "convulsed with red rage"- Hudson Strode
  6. (violently) in a violent manner; "they attacked violently"
  7. Violence is the expression of physical or verbal force against self or other, compelling action against one's will on pain of being hurt. Worldwide, violence is used as a tool of manipulation and also is an area of concern for law and culture which take attempts to suppress and stop it. ...
  8. Violence is the third album by the Washington-based alternative metal music group Nothingface. The album was released on September 5, 2000, via TVT Records.
  9. Violence: The Roleplaying Game of Egregious and Repulsive Bloodshed is a short, 32-page roleplaying game written by Greg Costikyan under the pseudonym "Designer X" and published by Hogshead Publishing in 1999 as part of its New Style line of games. ...
  10. (Violent (song)) "Violent" is New Zealand band Stellar*'s fourth single, and their third single from their debut album Mix. This song won the "Single of the Year" award at the 2000 New Zealand "Tui" Music Awards. ...
  11. Extreme force; Action intended to cause destruction, pain, or suffering; Widespread fighting; Injustice, wrong
  12. (violent) Involving extreme force or motion; Involving physical conflict; Likely to use physical force
  13. (VIOLENT) Showing very strong force. Acting with, marked by, or resulting from great force, energy or emotional intensity.
  14. To dream that any person does you violence, denotes that you will be overcome by enemies. If you do some other persons violence, you will lose fortune and favor by your reprehensible way of conducting your affairs.
  15. Scenes involving aggressive conflict. May contain bloodless dismemberment
  16. (Gewalt) is a conflict relationship that uses actual physical force to carry out one's own will.
  17. The anarchists are tender, affectionate, sensitive. As such, they hate violence. If it were possible for them to hope that they would realize through gentleness and persuasion their concept of universal peace, mutual aid and free agreement, they would repudiate all recourse to violence and would ...
  18. presentation of acts that injure, maim, threaten, or cause death.
  19. Physical violence against other human beings that inflicts injury or death, or threatens to inflict such violence, or any act dependent on such infliction or threat. Some types of religious or ethical nonviolence conceive of violence much more broadly. ...
  20. According to Walter Laqueur of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, "the only general characteristic of terrorism generally agreed upon is that terrorism involves violence and the threat of violence. ...
  21. My warranted response to the above-mentioned offender.
  22. May contain scenes of people getting injured or dying, often by use of weapons. Also may contain gore and blood-letting.
  23. The use of physical force that is intended to hurt or injure another person (Wright 2002).
  24. any act that hurts another person. Can be physical, emotional, spiritual, sexual, mental or verbal.