'Violence' definitions:
Definition of 'violence'
From: WordNet
noun
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" [syn: violence, force]
noun
The property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence" [syn: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness]
noun
A turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.
Definition of 'Violence'
From: GCIDE
- Violence \Vi"o*lence\, n. [F., fr. L. violentia. See Violent.]
- 1. The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force. [1913 Webster]
- That seal You ask with such a violence, the king, Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- All the elements At least had gone to wrack, disturbed and torn With the violence of this conflict. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault. [1913 Webster]
- Do violence to do man. --Luke iii. 14. [1913 Webster]
- We can not, without offering violence to all records, divine and human, deny an universal deluge. --T. Burnet. [1913 Webster]
- Looking down, he saw The whole earth filled with violence. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Ravishment; rape; constupration. [1913 Webster]
- To do violence on, to attack; to murder. "She . . . did violence on herself." --Shak.
- To do violence to, to outrage; to injure; as, he does violence to his own opinions. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Vehemence; outrage; fierceness; eagerness; violation; infraction; infringement; transgression; oppression. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Violence'
From: GCIDE
- Violence \Vi"o*lence\, v. t. To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'violence'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abuse,
- acerbity,
- acidity,
- acridity,
- acrimony,
- agitability,
- Alecto,
- animality,
- argumentum baculinum,
- assault,
- astringency,
- atrociousness,
- atrocity,
- attack,
- barbarity,
- barbarousness,
- beastliness,
- bestiality,
- bite,
- bitterness,
- bloodiness,
- bloodlust,
- bloodthirst,
- bloodthirstiness,
- bloody-mindedness,
- brutality,
- brutalness,
- brute force,
- brutishness,
- burning rage,
- cannibalism,
- causticity,
- clash,
- coercion,
- combustibility,
- compulsion,
- constraint,
- cruelness,
- cruelty,
- damage,
- destructiveness,
- distort,
- do violence to,
- duress,
- edge,
- edginess,
- emotional instability,
- emotionalism,
- energy,
- eruptiveness,
- excitability,
- excitableness,
- explosiveness,
- ferociousness,
- ferocity,
- fiendishness,
- fierceness,
- foul,
- frenzy,
- furious rage,
- furor,
- fury,
- grip,
- harm,
- harshness,
- high pressure,
- ill-treatment,
- ill-usage,
- ill-use,
- inflammability,
- inhumaneness,
- inhumanity,
- injure,
- injury,
- intensity,
- intimidation,
- irascibility,
- irritability,
- keenness,
- latent violence,
- maltreatment,
- Megaera,
- might,
- mightiness,
- mistreatment,
- molestation,
- mordacity,
- mordancy,
- murderousness,
- Nemesis,
- nervousness,
- outrage,
- passion,
- perturbability,
- physical force,
- poignancy,
- point,
- power,
- pressure,
- prickliness,
- rage,
- rigor,
- roughness,
- ruthlessness,
- sadism,
- sadistic cruelty,
- sanguineousness,
- savagery,
- sensitivity,
- severity,
- sharpness,
- skittishness,
- startlishness,
- sting,
- strength,
- stridency,
- stringency,
- strong-arm tactics,
- tartness,
- tearing passion,
- teeth,
- tempestuousness,
- the big stick,
- the bludgeon,
- the club,
- the Erinyes,
- the Eumenides,
- the Furies,
- the jackboot,
- the mailed fist,
- the strong arm,
- the sword,
- Tisiphone,
- touchiness,
- towering rage,
- trenchancy,
- truculence,
- twist,
- uproar,
- vandalism,
- vehemence,
- viciousness,
- vigor,
- violation,
- virulence,
- wanton cruelty,
- warp,
- wildness