Synonyms of the word violence


VIOLENCEAGGRESSION - FEROCITY - FIERCENESS - FORCE - FURIOUSNESS - FURY - HOSTILITY - INTENSITY - INTENSIVENESS - TURBULENCE - UPHEAVAL - VEHEMENCE - WILDNESS

violence

  • n. Extreme force.
  • n. Action which causes destruction, pain, or suffering.
  • n. Widespread fighting.
  • n. (figuratively) Injustice, wrong.
  • n. (obsolete) ravishment; rape; violation.
  • v. (nonstandard) To subject to violence.

aggression

  • n. The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.
  • n. The practice or habit of launching attacks.
  • n. Hostile or destructive behavior or actions.

ferocity

  • n. The condition of being ferocious.

fierceness

  • n. The state of being fierce.

force

  • n. Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or…
  • n. Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
  • n. (countable) Anything that is able to make a big change in a person or thing.
  • n. (countable, physics) A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body…
  • n. Something or anything that has the power to produce an effect upon something else.
  • n. (countable) A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
  • n. (uncountable) The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
  • n. (countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving…
  • n. (law) Legal validity.
  • n. (law) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
  • n. (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, …) to…
  • n. (science fiction) A binding, metaphysical, and ubiquitous power in the fictional universe of the Star…
  • v. (transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape.
  • v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To exert oneself, to do one's utmost.
  • v. (transitive) To compel (someone or something) to do something.
  • v. (transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
  • v. (transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
  • v. (transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
  • v. (transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
  • v. To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to…
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return…
  • v. (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
  • v. (archaic) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
  • v. (archaic) To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
  • v. (obsolete) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
  • n. (countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
  • v. To stuff; to lard; to farce.

furiousness

  • n. The state or quality of being furious or outraged; enragement; inflamedness.

fury

  • n. Extreme anger.
  • n. Strength or violence in action.
  • n. An angry or malignant person.
  • n. (obsolete) A thief.

hostility

  • n. (uncountable) The state of being hostile.
  • n. (countable) A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.

intensity

  • n. The quality of being intense.
  • n. The degree of strength.
  • n. (physics) Time-averaged energy flux (the ratio of average power to the area through which the power "flows");…
  • n. (optics) Can mean any of radiant intensity, luminous intensity or irradiance.
  • n. (astronomy) Synonym of radiance.
  • n. (geology) The severity of an earthquake in terms of its effects on the earth's surface, and buildings…

intensiveness

  • n. The condition of being intensive.

turbulence

  • n. (uncountable) The state or fact of being turbulent or agitated; tempestuousness, disturbance.
  • n. (uncountable) Disturbance in a gas or fluid, characterized by evidence of internal motion or unrest.
  • n. (uncountable) Specifically, a state of agitation or disturbance in the air which is disruptive to an aircraft.
  • n. An instance or type of such state or disturbance.

upheaval

  • n. The process of being heaved upward, especially the raising of part of the earth's crust.
  • n. A sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion.

vehemence

  • n. An intense concentration, force or power.
  • n. A wild or turbulent ferocity or fury.
  • n. Eagerness, fervor, excessive strong feeling.

wildness

  • n. the quality of being wild or untamed.

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