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English noun: violence | |||
| 1. | violence (act) an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists) | ||
| Samples | He may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one. | ||
| Synonyms | force | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | aggression, hostility | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | domestic violence, public violence, riot, road rage | ||
| 2. | violence (attribute) the property of being wild or turbulent | ||
| Samples | The storm's violence. | ||
| Synonyms | ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, wildness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | intensity, intensiveness | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | savageness, savagery | ||
| 3. | violence (state) a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | Sturm und Drang, turbulence, upheaval | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | rage | ||
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