violence

[Vi·o*lence]

Violence is aggression, usually physical aggression that causes harm. Beating someone up and attacking a defenseless village are both forms of violence.

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The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force.

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"

Noun
the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm''s violence"

Noun
a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.


n.
The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force.

n.
Injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault.

n.
Ravishment; rape; constupration.

v. t.
To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel.


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.
That seal You ask with such a violence, the king, Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me.
All the elements At least had gone to wrack, disturbed and torn With the violence of this conflict.
2. Injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault.
Do violence to do man.
We can not, without offering violence to all records, divine and human, deny an universal deluge.
Looking down, he saw The whole earth filled with violence.
3. Ravishment; rape; constupration. 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. Syn. -- Vehemence; outrage; fierceness; eagerness; violation; infraction; infringement; transgression; oppression.

Violence

Vi"o*lence, v. t. To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force.

To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel.

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Usage Examples

As the third anniversary of the September 11th attacks draws near we must ensure our nation is prepared to handle the continued threat of violence and terrorism on our country.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Education is the vaccine for violence.

Education is a vacine for violence.

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence.

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

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Other Usage Examples

Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.

But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

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