violence
vio·lence
noun
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”
3.
a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.
Phrases
- choose violence
- do violence to
- I choose violence
- intimate partner violence
- male pattern violence
- male-pattern violence
- police violence
- sexual violence
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