Definition of violence

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

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Strain :: Strain (a.) To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in the matter of intent or meaning; as, to strain the law in order to convict an accused person..
Assail :: Assail (v. t.) To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery..
Throw :: Throw (v. t.) To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock..
Booming :: Booming (a.) Rushing with violence; swelling with a hollow sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding.
Bluster :: Bluster (v. t.) To utter, or do, with noisy violence; to force by blustering; to bully..
Mole :: Mole (n.) A mound or massive work formed of masonry or large stones, etc., laid in the sea, often extended either in a right line or an arc of a circle before a port which it serves to defend from the violence of the waves, thus protecting ships in a harbor; also, sometimes, the harbor itself..
Blustering :: Blustering (a.) Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous..
Tear :: Tear (v. t.) To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair..
Assassination :: Assassination (n.) The act of assassinating; a killing by treacherous violence.
Exasperation :: Exasperation (n.) Increase of violence or malignity; aggravation; exacerbation.
Heat :: Heat (n.) Utmost violence; rage; vehemence; as, the heat of battle or party..
Fury :: Fury (n.) Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence..
Pillage :: Pillage (v. i.) To strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy..
Wrench :: Wrench (n.) To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence..
Snort :: Snort (v. i.) To force the air with violence through the nose, so as to make a noise, as do high-spirited horsed in prancing and play..
Tempest :: Tempest (n.) An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm..
Reddour :: Reddour (n.) Rigor; violence.
Belch :: Belch (v. i.) To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct.
Explosion :: Explosion (n.) A bursting with violence and loud noise, because of internal pressure; as, the explosion of a gun, a bomb, a steam boiler, etc..
Stram :: Stram (v. t.) To spring or recoil with violence.
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