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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Seaworthiness :: Seaworthiness (n.) The state or quality of being seaworthy, or able to resist the ordinary violence of wind and weather..
Violence :: Violence (n.) The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force..
Boom :: Boom (v. i.) To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind..
Violent :: Violent (v. t.) To urge with violence.
Heteronomy :: Heteronomy (n.) A term applied by Kant to those laws which are imposed on us from without, or the violence done to us by our passions, wants, or desires..
Assassination :: Assassination (n.) The act of assassinating; a killing by treacherous violence.
Euripus :: Euripus (n.) A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient fright of this name between Eubaea and Baeotia. Hence, a flux and reflux..
Slam-bang :: Slam-bang (adv.) With great violence; with a slamming or banging noise.
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..
Rampageous :: Rampageous (a.) Characterized by violence and passion; unruly; rampant.
Crunch :: Crunch (v. i.) To grind or press with violence and noise.
Overforce :: Overforce (n.) Excessive force; violence.
Sever :: Sever (v. t.) To separate, as one from another; to cut off from something; to divide; to part in any way, especially by violence, as by cutting, rending, etc.; as, to sever the head from the body..
Rescue :: Rescue (v. t.) To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction..
Spend :: Spend (v. t.) To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent..
Bluster :: Bluster (n.) Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness..
Rip :: Rip (v. t.) To divide or separate the parts of, by cutting or tearing; to tear or cut open or off; to tear off or out by violence; as, to rip a garment by cutting the stitches; to rip off the skin of a beast; to rip up a floor; -- commonly used with up, open, off..
Prensation :: Prensation (n.) The act of seizing with violence.
Gushing :: Gushing (a.) Rushing forth with violence, as a fluid; flowing copiously; as, gushing waters..
Breakwater :: Breakwater (n.) Any structure or contrivance, as a mole, or a wall at the mouth of a harbor, to break the force of waves, and afford protection from their violence..
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