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Violence
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- 1 Extreme force. countable, uncountable
"The violence of the storm, fortunately, was more awesome than destructive."
- 2 an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists) wordnet
- 3 Physical action which causes destruction, harm, pain, or suffering. countable, uncountable
"We try to avoid violence in resolving conflicts."
- 4 the property of being wild or turbulent wordnet
- 5 Widespread fighting. countable, uncountable
"Violence between the government and the rebels continues."
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- 6 a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc. wordnet
- 7 Injustice, wrong. countable, figuratively, uncountable
"The translation does violence to the original novel."
- 1 To subject to violence. nonstandard
"The key general point is that the idea of the agendered, asexual, aviolenced worker is a fiction; workers and organizational members do not exist in social abstraction; they are gendered, sexualed and violenced, partly by their position ..."
Etymology
From Middle English violence, from Old French violence, from Latin violentia, from adjective violentus, see violent. Displaced native Old English stræc.
From Middle English violence, from Old French violence, from Latin violentia, from adjective violentus, see violent. Displaced native Old English stræc.
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