violence

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an act of aggression, as one against a person who resists

   They may accomplish by craft in the long run what they cannot do by force and violence in the short one.

2. 2
   noun

   the property of being wild or turbulent

   the storm's violence

3. 3
   noun

   Extreme force.

   The violence of the storm, fortunately, was more awesome than destructive.

4. 4
   noun

   Physical action which causes destruction, harm, pain, or suffering.

   We try to avoid violence in resolving conflicts.

5. 5
   noun

   Widespread fighting.

   Violence between the government and the rebels continues.

6. 6
   noun

   Injustice, wrong.

   The translation does violence to the original novel.

7. 7
   verb

   To subject to violence.

   The key general point is that the idea of the agendered, asexual, aviolenced worker is a fiction; workers and organizational members do not exist in social abstraction; they are gendered, sexualed and violenced, partly by their position ...

8. 8
   noun

   a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁s Proto-Italic *wīs Latin vīs Latin violēns Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin violentiabor. Old French violencebor. Middle English violence English violence Inherited from Middle English violence, borrowed from Old French violence, borrowed from Latin violentia, from violēns (“violent”) + -ia. See violent. Displaced native Old English stræc.