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1. An act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
   "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one";
   - force
    
2. The property of being wild or turbulent
   "the storm's violence";
   - ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, wildness, vehemency
    
3. A turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.

Derived forms: violences

Type of: aggression, hostility, intensity, intensiveness, Sturm und Drang, turbulence, upheaval

Encyclopedia: Violence