Definition of violence

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Violence (v. t.) To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel..

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Beat :: Beat (v. i.) To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do..
Decline :: Decline (v. i.) That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever..
Irrupted :: Irrupted (a.) Broken with violence.
Blustering :: Blustering (a.) Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous..
Force :: Force (n.) Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence..
Rough :: Rough (n.) Marked by severity or violence; harsh; hard; as, rough measures or actions..
Reave :: Reave (v. i.) To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic.
Stun :: Stun (v. t.) To make senseless or dizzy by violence; to render senseless by a blow, as on the head..
Parting :: Parting (n.) The breaking, as of a cable, by violence..
Moderate :: Moderate (v. t.) To restrain from excess of any kind; to reduce from a state of violence, intensity, or excess; to keep within bounds; to make temperate; to lessen; to allay; to repress; to temper; to qualify; as, to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.; to moderate heat or wind..
Rapacious :: Rapacious (a.) Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird..
Attack :: Attack (n.) The act of attacking, or falling on with force or violence; an onset; an assault; -- opposed to defense..
Slot :: Slot (v. t.) To shut with violence; to slam; as, to slot a door..
Belch :: Belch (v. i.) To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct.
Buffet :: Buffet (v. i.) A blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity..
Duress :: Duress (n.) The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense..
Epitasis :: Epitasis (n.) The period of violence in a fever or disease; paroxysm.
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..
Rapture :: Rapture (n.) A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence.
Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates..
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