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1. (n.) violence
swift and intense force.
2. violence
rough or injurious physical force, action, or treatment.
3. violence
an unjust or unwarranted exertion of force or power.
4. violence
a violent act or proceeding.
5. violence
rough or immoderate vehemence, as of feeling or language.
6. violence
damage, as through distortion of meaning or fact:
to do violence to a translation.
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| Definition of 'violence' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) violence, force
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. (noun) ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness
the property of being wild or turbulent
"the storm's violence"
3. (noun) violence
a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.
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1. (noun) violence
the use of physical force against people or things
to protest violence against ethnic minorities; an outbreak of violence in the city; too much violence shown on TV
2. violence
domestic violence
violence between family members
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| Definition of 'violence' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) violence
the quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force
2. (noun) violence
injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault
3. (noun) violence
ravishment; rape; constupration
4. (verb) violence
to assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel
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| Definition of 'violence' |
U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. violence
Individual or group aggressive behavior which is socially non-acceptable, turbulent, and often destructive. It is precipitated by frustrations, hostility, prejudices, etc.
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Sense: great roughness and force, often causing severe physical injury or damage
I was amazed at the violence of his temper; She was terrified by the violence of the storm.
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 Afrikaans: geweld |
 Arabic: عُنْف |
 Bulgarian: жестокост |
 Brazilian: violência |
 Czech: prudkost |
 German: die Heftigkeit |
 Danish: voldsomhed |
 Greek: βία, βιαιότητα, σφοδρότητ |
 Spanish: violencia |
 Estonian: ägedus, vägivaldsus |
 Farsi: شدت |
 Finnish: väkivalta |
 French: violence |
 Hebrew: אַלִימוּת |
 Hindi: हिंसा, प्रचंडता, प्रबलता |
 Croatian: nasilje |
 Hungarian: erőszak |
 Indonesian: kekerasan |
 Icelandic: ofbeldi, ofsi |
 Italian: violenza |
 Japanese: 激しさ |
 Korean: 폭력 |
 Lithuanian: stiprumas, jėga, siautėji |
 Latvian: spēks; niknums; vardarbīb |
 Malay: keganasan |
 Dutch: geweld |
 Norwegian: vold(somhet), brutalitet |
 Polish: gwałtowność, przemoc |
 Persian: شدت |
 Pashto: زور، قوت، تشدد، اجبار: تي |
 Portuguese: violência |
 Romanian: violenţă |
 Russian: неистовство |
 Slovak: násilie, hrubosť, prudkos |
 Slovenian: silovitost |
 Serbian: nasilje |
 Swedish: våld, våldsamhet |
 Thai: ความรุนแรง |
 Turkish: şiddet |
 Taiwanese: 猛烈，暴力 |
 Ukrainian: несамовитість, шаленість |
 Urdu: تشدد |
 Vietnamese: sự hung dữ |
 Chinese: 暴力，猛烈，强烈 |
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