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VIOLENCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
Example:
he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("violence" is a kind of...):
aggression; hostility (violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "violence"):
domestic violence (violence or physical abuse directed toward your spouse or domestic partner or other members of a household)
road rage (violence exhibited by drivers in traffic)
public violence; riot (a public act of violence by an unruly mob)
Derivation:
violent (effected by force or injury rather than natural causes)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The property of being wild or turbulent
Example:
the storm's violence
Synonyms:
ferocity; fierceness; furiousness; fury; vehemence; violence; wildness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("violence" is a kind of...):
intensity; intensiveness (high level or degree; the property of being intense)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "violence"):
savageness; savagery (the property of being untamed and ferocious)
Derivation:
violent (acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("violence" is a kind of...):
Sturm und Drang; turbulence; upheaval (a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "violence"):
rage (violent state of the elements)
Derivation:
violent (characterized by violence or bloodshed)
Context examples:
And now nothing remains for me but to assure you in the most animated language of the violence of my affection.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I threw open the window, reopening by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in the bedroom that morning.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Domestic violence is a type of abuse.
(Domestic Violence, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Thus I relieve thee, my creator, he said, and placed his hated hands before my eyes, which I flung from me with violence; thus I take from thee a sight which you abhor.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Some common causes of head injuries are falls, motor vehicle accidents, violence, and sports injuries.
(Head Injuries, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
Don't keep guns in your home if someone in your family has a mental illness, severe depression, or potential for violence.
(Gun Safety, NIH)
And why, now, was he so tame under the violence or treachery done him?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Cautions against the violence of such noblemen and baronets as delight in forcing young ladies away to some remote farm-house, must, at such a moment, relieve the fulness of her heart.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
They caught the man by his leg and arm, and swung him three times backwards and forwards with tremendous violence.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It struck poor Tom, point foremost, and with stunning violence, right between the shoulders in the middle of his back.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
