Noun violence has 3 senses
- violence, force - 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"
--1 is a kind of aggression, hostility
--1 has particulars: domestic violence; road rage; riot, public violence
- ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness - the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence"
--2 is a kind of intensity, intensiveness
- violence - a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.
--3 is a kind of turbulence, upheaval, Sturm und Drang
--3 has particulars: rage
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