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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Defence :: Defence (n.) The act of defending, or the state of being defended; protection, as from violence or danger..
Ravine :: Ravine (n.) Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven.
Trash :: Trash (v. i.) To follow with violence and trampling.
Outrage :: Outrage (n.) To commit outrage upon; to subject to outrage; to treat with violence or excessive abuse.
Spend :: Spend (v. t.) To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent..
Dint :: Dint (n.) The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
Attack :: Attack (n.) The act of attacking, or falling on with force or violence; an onset; an assault; -- opposed to defense..
Rigor :: Rigor (n.) Violence; force; fury.
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and fracture; as, they burned the wreck..
Pellmell :: Pellmell (adv.) In utter confusion; with confused violence.
Shiver :: Shiver (n.) One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural..
Burn :: Burn (v. i.) To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever..
Explode :: Explode (v. t.) To drive out with violence and noise, as by powder..
Explode :: Explode (v. i.) To burst forth with sudden violence and noise; as, at this, his wrath exploded..
Stram :: Stram (v. t.) To spring or recoil with violence.
Burke :: Burke (v. t.) To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection..
Burst :: Burst (v. t.) To break or rend by violence, as by an overcharge or by strain or pressure, esp. from within; to force open suddenly; as, to burst a cannon; to burst a blood vessel; to burst open the doors..
Reave :: Reave (v. i.) To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic.
Epitasis :: Epitasis (n.) The period of violence in a fever or disease; paroxysm.
Concussion :: Concussion (n.) The unlawful forcing of another by threats of violence to yield up something of value.
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