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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
violence
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a round of violence
▪ What has prompted the latest round of violence?
a wave of violence/attacks/bombings
▪ The incident triggered a wave of violence.
an act of violence/aggression
▪ Incidents of sexual harassment and acts of violence against women were on the increase.
an explosion of violence
▪ The army had to cope with the explosion of violence that followed the elections.
commit an act of violence/terrorism/aggression etc
▪ Anyone committing an act of terrorism will be severely punished.
domestic violence/abuse (=in a family, especially by a husband towards his wife)
▪ The organization supports women who are victims of domestic violence.
ethnic violence/conflict (=fighting or trouble between different ethnic groups)
▪ Hundreds were killed and injured in the country’s worst outbreak of ethnic violence.
football violence (=between fans at football games)
▪ The government is considering measures to combat football violence.
gang violence
▪ Residents say that gang violence is common.
gratuitous violence
▪ children’s books which include gratuitous violence
indiscriminate attacks/killing/violence/bombing etc
▪ terrorists responsible for indiscriminate killing
physical abuse/violence
▪ He had suffered physical abuse at the hands of his parents.
provoke violence
▪ It was a small incident but it provoked weeks of violence.
quell the violence/disturbance/riot etc
▪ Police used live ammunition to quell the disturbances.
racial violence
▪ We can't rest until there is no more racial violence.
random violence
▪ The family were caught up in the random violence that haunts a neighbourhood ruled by gangs.
resort to violence
▪ Officials fear that extremists may resort to violence.
street crime/violence (=when people are attacked in the street)
▪ Young men are most likely to be victims of street crime.
terrorist violence
▪ Al-Qaeda began waging a campaign of terrorist violence against the West.
violence/fighting spreads
▪ There is no indication that the violence is likely to spread.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
domestic
▪ Stop the suffering ... two million pounds to help victims of domestic violence.
▪ The offer included a $ 250 fine, community service and domestic violence counseling.
▪ Violence victims face homelessness Social workers need more training in housing legislation to protect victims of domestic violence being made homeless.
▪ The league also has concerns about domestic violence. according to Tagliabue.
▪ Infact, Phillips says, most adults desire marriage and don't experience domestic violence.
▪ There is definitely a link between domestic violence and child abuse.
▪ We have helped raise millions of dollars for education and awareness to all sort of issues, including domestic violence.
▪ Social scientists who study domestic violence and daily witness such evil do not seriously consider evil as a factor in family violence.
ethnic
▪ The rioting came two weeks after Britain's worst ethnic violence in 15 years, across the Pennines in Oldham last month.
▪ Why then the recent ethnic violence?
▪ Differences of interpretation emerged within days of the signing of the Sarajevo agreement as ethnic violence continued to escalate.
▪ Inter-#ethnic violence has flared sporadically since independence.
▪ More than 4,000 people have died there in the past four years in a catalogue of political, ethnic and sectarian violence.
▪ The decision came as ethnic and religious violence in the southeast spread.
▪ The rise of ethnic violence throughout the Eastern bloc is unfortunately the other side of the coin to self-determination.
gratuitous
▪ Some performance art does contain gratuitous violence.
▪ Football, with its litany of gratuitous violence, is the culprit.
▪ There were many stories afterwards of what appeared to be gratuitous police violence.
▪ Within a short period of time, gratuitous violence has become commonplace.
▪ That marks the public's revulsion at acts of gratuitous violence against innocent victims.
▪ Largely the element of gratuitous violence is also missing.
▪ He was well-known for his unsolicited and gratuitous violence.
▪ Student demonstrations developed an ugly edge of gratuitous violence.
male
▪ None the less to equate female and male violence is misleading.
▪ The popular notion that words do not hurt you is by no means endorsed among women survivors of male violence.
▪ The causes of male violence intersect in complex ways with inequalities of class, ethnicity, race, and age.
▪ Female nurturing is presented as the solution to male violence - as though women haven't been doing that for centuries.
▪ The divine has long been made an intimate participant in male experiences of violence, in war and in political martyrdom.
▪ Other essays examine subjects such as white supremacy, Black homophobia feminist politicization and male violence.
▪ Summary 1 Official statistics understate the amount of male violence against women both in public places and in the home.
physical
▪ Victims who suffered physical violence were also threatened in 43.4 percent. of cases.
▪ Yelling and calling each other names can quickiy become physical violence.
▪ Some women are afraid of physical violence or abuse from their partners, if they try to make changes in their relationship.
▪ Some even met physical violence from anti-Methodistsyet they endured.
▪ These men are accustomed to physical violence and intimidation.
▪ And a growing number of right-wing groups had decided to shore up their opposition with physical violence.
▪ Their mythology has no instances of human physical violence.
▪ More often than threats or acts of physical violence, careers are jeopardized or destroyed.
political
▪ At least 36 people died in black political violence around the country.
▪ Throughout 1983, political violence continued erupting in south Florida.
▪ Vendettas and clan warfare are part of the culture in Corsica, where political and criminal violence often interact.
▪ While there is political violence, it has not descended to political assassination.
▪ Hojatolislam Hosseinian and a group of conservatives around him have been demonised by reformers for an alleged connection to political violence.
▪ With Aristide prevented by the constitution from standing again in 1996, the country was swamped by criminal and political violence.
▪ Despite the reports of political violence and killing, there has been plenty of genuine electioneering.
▪ The second is internal war, which comprises armed attacks, deaths from political violence, and political assassinations.
racial
▪ But now there is a new kind of racial violence in schools - girls attacking girls.
▪ The fear of racial violence was provoked by Conservative politician Enoch Powell.
▪ A police spokeswoman said the outbreak was not connected to racial violence in nearby Oldham last month.
▪ The year of the Hodges decision, 1906, was punctuated with racial violence.
▪ The question of sexuality further complicates racialized encounters, such as racial harassment and violence.
▪ Black people have always known racial violence to be a criminal offence and Black people always reported incidents to the police.
▪ The federal army in the South, in keeping with the 1877 Compromise, largely ignored instances of racial violence.
sectarian
▪ The ferry was packed with refugees fleeing sectarian violence in the Moluccas.
▪ Military governance has not ended sectarian violence or brought a return of foreign investment.
▪ Tyrone on Aug. 5 and in Lisburn on Aug. 24, were also believed to be victims of the sectarian violence.
▪ The sectarian violence of Northern Ireland is a different matter altogether.
▪ Southern states, usually less prone to sectarian violence, were also hit, with many deaths reported from Karnataka and Kerala.
▪ More than 4,000 people have died there in the past four years in a catalogue of political, ethnic and sectarian violence.
▪ And sectarian politics will continue to breed sectarian violence.
■ VERB
end
▪ The accord, which sought to end political violence, was agreed by 31 parties, including religious and business groups.
▪ Those highly visible operations, which featured heavily armed government forces using aggressive pressure tactics, ended in deadly violence.
▪ Military governance has not ended sectarian violence or brought a return of foreign investment.
▪ But there were times when an ended affair produced violence in her.
▪ More than 150 officers battled to end the violence at a remand centre in Reading, Berks.
erupt
▪ A march against globalisation erupted into violence in Barcelona.
▪ San Francisco uses Community Boards, with voluntary mediators, to resolve the kinds of everyday conflicts that often erupt into violence.
▪ Some of these areas were constantly erupting into violence, and on one occasion in El Salvador, a brother was kidnapped.
involve
▪ Thus, with certain limited exceptions, rape remains essentially a crime involving violence or the threat of it.
▪ This is the second time Canseco was involved in domestic violence.
▪ A number of generals directly involved in the May violence in Bangkok were shifted to inactive posts.
▪ Only groups involved in violence in Northern Ireland have been prohibited.
▪ Since only a small minority was involved in violence, why give so much attention to the riot?
▪ In a 1974 study of eighty families, sociologist Richard Gelles found more nonreligious than religious homes involved in expressions of violence.
▪ One thing I hate now is seeing telly programmes involving violence or mental pain.
▪ A full 43 % of these crimes involved some form of violence.
lead
▪ But for every Lendu-#led massacre there is a tale of Hema-led violence to match.
▪ They may even lead to violence and to death.
▪ Addiction led to theft and violence.
▪ When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear, and that leads to violence.
▪ Picketing led to violence and one company dismissed the union workers on strike.
▪ Many disputes that could lead to violence are peacefully resolved in our courts.
▪ Confronting him and getting her money back leads to violence and tragedy.
▪ The agenda becomes one of identifying the cues, prompts, or button-pushing events that lead to violence.
provoke
▪ It is true that poverty sometimes provokes bitterness and violence, but the poor do not start wars.
▪ Such policies either ameliorate the worst conditions that might provoke violence or provide certain classes with advantages over classes below them.
resort
▪ How can we deal with bullying without resorting to violence ourselves?
▪ Socrates finds satisfying, gut-wrenching answers to these and other universal questions without resorting to violence or to 911.
▪ There was evidence that passers-by were annoyed, and were on the verge of resorting to violence when the police intervened.
▪ Officials fear extremists on both sides may resort to violence to try to derail the redeployment.
stop
▪ Police have not tried to stop the violence.
▪ The assumption is that if the woman had changed her behavior, the batterer would have stopped his violence.
▪ But I can't say stop the violence, because there's always going to be violence.
▪ Their goal: To stop the violence contamination at the source.
▪ A motion from the Selly Oak constituency says reform is needed to curb health risks and to stop growing violence.
▪ But it did not stop the township violence - 36 blacks were killed just hours before.
threaten
▪ No one should be subjected to verbal harassment, just as no one should be threatened with physical violence.
▪ In general, elite settlements stem from long periods of conflict and crises that threaten to rekindle widespread violence.
▪ Unlawful violence A person who threatens lawful violence can not be convicted under this section.
▪ Several vessels have already travelled to the area to help people threatened by the violence.
▪ Once Jonadab had threatened physical violence, the son realised that he was more than a match for his ageing parent.
use
▪ The government has repeatedly used violence to suppress opposition demands that President Mobutu Sese Seko's powers be curtailed.
▪ People have become used to employing violence as a means of resolving conflict or asserting power over others.
▪ None has used or advocated violence.
▪ That is, only the state has the right to use violence to enforce the laws and decisions of the society.
▪ To use violence against them was an offence of extreme gravity.
▪ Those groups, in turn, used violence and state power to protect their position.
▪ They then used violence to force her supporters out of party headquarters.
▪ Others say Gwinn has used domestic violence to advance his career.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sectarian violence/conflict/murder etc
▪ Church leaders hold crisis talks on wave of sectarian murders - see page 6.
▪ Military governance has not ended sectarian violence or brought a return of foreign investment.
▪ Nevertheless, the moves towards positive change are being frustrated both by threats from right-wing activists, and by sectarian conflicts.
▪ Southern states, usually less prone to sectarian violence, were also hit, with many deaths reported from Karnataka and Kerala.
▪ The sectarian violence of Northern Ireland is a different matter altogether.
▪ The ferry was packed with refugees fleeing sectarian violence in the Moluccas.
▪ They may reduce the risk of attack, but they can not prevent random sectarian murders.
▪ Tyrone on Aug. 5 and in Lisburn on Aug. 24, were also believed to be victims of the sectarian violence.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Leave me alone," she hissed with sudden violence.
▪ complaints about sex and violence on TV
▪ In some parts of the city, teachers have to deal with violence in the classroom.
▪ Police said violence in the city was continuing into the night.
▪ The statistics show that male violence against women is widespread.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A second possibility is that the use of violence itself amounts to threatening behaviour.
▪ But there was also an exhilaration in the atmosphere of conspiracy and violence which characterised the last years of his childhood.
▪ It was a march against racist policing and racist violence.
▪ Such federally-funded research into gun violence could be ended by a bill the House is expected to consider this week.
▪ The courts served as a safety-valve, acting as an alternative to violence when emotions ran high.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Violence

Violence \Vi"o*lence\, n. [F., fr. L. violentia. See Violent.]

  1. The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force.

    That seal You ask with such a violence, the king, Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me.
    --Shak.

    All the elements At least had gone to wrack, disturbed and torn With the violence of this conflict.
    --Milton.

  2. Injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault.

    Do violence to do man.
    --Luke iii. 14.

    We can not, without offering violence to all records, divine and human, deny an universal deluge.
    --T. Burnet.

    Looking down, he saw The whole earth filled with violence.
    --Milton.

  3. Ravishment; rape; constupration.

    To do violence on, to attack; to murder. ``She . . . did violence on herself.''
    --Shak.

    To do violence to, to outrage; to injure; as, he does violence to his own opinions.

    Syn: Vehemence; outrage; fierceness; eagerness; violation; infraction; infringement; transgression; oppression.

Violence

Violence \Vi"o*lence\, v. t. To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel. [Obs.]
--B. Jonson.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
violence

late 13c., "physical force used to inflict injury or damage," from Anglo-French and Old French violence (13c.), from Latin violentia "vehemence, impetuosity," from violentus "vehement, forcible," probably related to violare (see violation). Weakened sense of "improper treatment" is attested from 1590s.

Wiktionary
violence

n. 1 Extreme force. 2 Action which causes destruction, pain, or suffering.

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WordNet
violence

  1. n. 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" [syn: force]

  2. the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence" [syn: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, wildness]

  3. a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.

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Wikipedia
Violence

Globally, violence resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1.28 million people in 2013 up from 1.13 million in 1990. Of the deaths in 2013, roughly 842,000 were attributed to self-harm ( suicide), 405,000 to interpersonal violence, and 31,000 to collective violence ( war) and legal intervention. In Africa, out of every 100,000 people, each year an estimated 60.9 die a violent death. Corlin, past president of the American Medical Association said: "The United States leads the world—in the rate at which its children die from firearms." He concluded: "Gun violence is a threat to the public health of our country." For each single death due to violence, there are dozens of hospitalizations, hundreds of emergency department visits, and thousands of doctors' appointments. Furthermore, violence often has lifelong consequences for physical and mental health and social functioning and can slow economic and social development.

In 2013, assault by firearm was the leading cause of death due to interpersonal violence, with 180,000 such deaths estimated to have occurred. The same year, assault by sharp object resulted in roughly 114,000 deaths, with a remaining 110,000 deaths from personal violence being attributed to other causes.

Violence in many forms is preventable. There is a strong relationship between levels of violence and modifiable factors such as concentrated poverty, income and gender inequality, the harmful use of alcohol, and the absence of safe, stable, and nurturing relationships between children and parents. Strategies addressing the underlying causes of violence can be effective in preventing violence.

Violence (role-playing game)

Violence: The Role-Playing Game of Egregious and Repulsive Bloodshed is a short, 32-page role-playing game written by Greg Costikyan under the pseudonym "Designer X" and published by Hogshead Publishing in 1999 as part of its New Style line of games.

Violence (album)

Violence is the third album by the Washington, D.C.-based alternative metal band Nothingface. The album was released on September 5, 2000, via TVT Records. The album received positive reviews, but didn't experience mainstream popularity, selling only 87,000 copies in the U.S.

Violence (film)

Violence is a 1947 American drama film noir directed by Jack Bernhard. The drama features Nancy Coleman, Michael O'Shea and Sheldon Leonard.

Violence (disambiguation)

Violence may refer to:

  • Violence, the use of physical force to cause injury, damage or death
  • Violence (book) a 2008 book on social theory by Slavoj Žižek
  • "Violence", a song by Against Me! from their album Searching for a Former Clarity
  • "Violence", a song by Blink-182 from their self titled album
  • "Violence", a song by Mott the Hoople
  • Violence (album), an album by Nothingface
  • "Violence", a song by the Pet Shop Boys that appears on the albums Please and Very (2001 rerelease)
  • Violence (role-playing game), a role-playing game by Greg Costikyan
  • Vio-lence, a thrash metal band
  • Violence a film noir from 1947
  • La Violencia
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Usage examples of "violence".

Bushranging was revived on an unprecedented scale, so were crimes of violence, and men absconded almost at will.

But if the governmental systems are providing justice and protecting equity, revolutions can be achieved through talk, not violence.

Breteuil was obliged to withdraw his opposition, and to acquiesce in this violence.

The tidal regularity of cerebral chemical flows, the cyclonic violence latent in the adrenergic current of the autonomic nervous system, the delicate mysteries of the sweep of oxygen atoms from pneumonic membrane into the bloodstream.

Mark Twain wrote: I must steal half a moment from my work to say how glad I am to have your book and how highly I value it, both for its own sake and as a remembrance of an affectionate friendship which has subsisted between us for nine years without a break and without a single act of violence that I can call to mind.

He has a twenty-eight-year pattern of aggression, violence, miscalculation, and purposeful underestimation of the consequences of his actions that should give real pause to anyone considering whether to allow him to acquire nuclear weapons.

The commons appeared determined no longer to brook a delay of the agrarian law, and extreme violence was on the eve of being resorted to, when it was ascertained from the burning of the country-houses and the flight of the peasants that the Volscians were at hand: this circumstance checked the sedition that was now ripe and almost breaking out.

He thought he saw the great prophet Mohammed snatching the Alcoran out of his hand and taking his coat-of-arms from him by force, and striking him down with so great violence that he could not rise.

An innocent young girl, who, in spite of her fifteen years, has not loved yet, who has not frequented the society of other girls, does not know the violence of amorous desires or what is likely to excite them.

This was too much, the mere idea of using violence has always shocked me, and I am still of opinion that the only pleasure in the amorous embrace springs from perfect union and agreement.

It conjured up a society so encrusted with anachronisms that only a shock of great violence could free the living organism within.

Shiel seemed the most angry, but Aril and Ooryl insulated him from the individuals on either side so no violence broke out.

Constantine should be rendered incapable of the throne: her emissaries assaulted the sleeping prince, and stabbed their daggers with such violence and precipitation into his eyes as if they meant to execute a mortal sentence.

In the two chapters immediately following, VIII and IX, the reader will learn something of the loss of all moral standards and the cruel, lawless violence to which the atheistic, anarchistic materialism of I.

I think we may lay it down as a general rule that at a certain stage of social and intellectual evolution men have believed themselves to be naturally immortal in this life and have regarded death by disease or even by accident or violence as an unnatural event which has been brought about by sorcery and which must be avenged by the death of the sorcerer.