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Synonyms for violence
ˈvaɪ ə lənsvi·o·lence
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
violence
Synonyms:
agitation, alarm, anxiety, care, distress, disturbance, eagerness, emotion, excitement, feeling, frenzy, fury, passion, sensibility, sensitiveness, storm, susceptibility, sympathy, turbulence, vehemenceAntonyms:
apathy, calmness, composure, immobility, impassibility, indifference, insensibility, lethargy, phlegm, quietness, quietude, sluggishness, stillness, stoicism, tranquillity, unconcern, unfeelingness
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
violence
Synonyms:
vehemence, impetuosity, force, rape, outrage, rage, profanation, injustice, fury, infringement, fierceness, oppressionAntonyms:
lenity, mildness, self-restraint, feebleness, gentleness, respect, forbearance, self-control, observance, obedience, preservation, conservation, protection
Princeton's WordNet
violence, forcenoun
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"
Synonyms:
power, military unit, furiousness, military group, force, vehemence, military force, force play, strength, ferocity, effect, wildness, force out, fierceness, fury, force-out, personnel, forcefulnessferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildnessnoun
the property of being wild or turbulent
"the storm's violence"
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fury, rage, delirium, emphasis, craze, frenzy, abandon, madness, wildness, force, vehemence, furiousness, ferocity, hysteria, fiercenessviolencenoun
a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.
Synonyms:
fury, vehemence, fierceness, wildness, ferocity, force, furiousness
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
violencenoun
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vehemence, impetuosity, boisterousnessviolencenoun
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passion, fury, fierceness, wildness, rageviolencenoun
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outrage, injustice, injury, unlawfulness, sway or brute force, reign of terrorviolencenoun
Synonyms:
sharpness, acuteness, severity, poignancy, intensity
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#307 | power | |
#309 | care | |
#1022 | force | |
#1071 | effect | |
#1605 | rape | |
#2225 | abuse | |
#2397 | personnel | |
#2720 | violence | |
#2814 | strength | |
#2935 | feeling | |
#3413 | storm | |
#4148 | alarm | |
#4487 | emphasis | |
#4973 | passion | |
#5940 | violent | |
#6171 | assault | |
#6386 | anxiety | |
#8658 | rage | |
#9249 | madness | |
#9726 | excitement | |
#9861 | sympathy | |
#9984 | infringement | |
#10424 | emotion | |
#12585 | fury | |
#12669 | distress | |
#14374 | disturbance | |
#14530 | abandon | |
#17473 | injustice | |
#17794 | susceptibility | |
#18665 | frenzy | |
#18852 | oppression | |
#19647 | turbulence | |
#20114 | outrage | |
#26274 | sensibility | |
#26875 | craze | |
#27217 | brutality | |
#28106 | agitation | |
#31048 | hysteria | |
#36680 | delirium | |
#46529 | eagerness | |
#63144 | ferocity | |
#83394 | wildness | |
#86052 | vehemence | |
#108021 | violencia | |
#127230 | fierceness | |
#143708 | gewalt | |
#152198 | sensitiveness | |
#206257 | impetuosity | |
#242472 | forcefulness | |
#247237 | profanation | |
#286030 | violences |
How to use violence in a sentence?
You can’t separate Latino culture from Arizona and who we are as a state, i thought a lot about people I worked with in my career as a social worker and the things I’ve learned particularly from Latina women I had a chance to work with at the domestic violence shelter.
And that ensures virtually no deal and the likelihood of violence over Jerusalem in the future.
We’re fighting against mass violence, shootings, unemployment, and it is not the right symbol, in terms of what we’re trying to brand the city of Detroit as being.
Thirty people were arrested today over violence and then the rally was cancelled, protesters took violence into their own hands ...any campaign that disrespects the voters and a campaign that encourages violence and facing allegations against members of the press you create an environment that encourages this.
My theory is that its a Black mans responsibility to reduce the gun violence in their communities, you see, a lot of us continue to wait on the police to stop the killing. We continue to wait on programs to stop the killings. But its really all about [how] the Black man must rise up to the occasion and really address the issue of gun violence in our community. The numbers will never surprise me.
Translations for violence
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- عنفArabic
- violènciaCatalan, Valencian
- násilíCzech
- traisWelsh
- Gewalttätigkeiten, Gewalttaten, GewaltGerman
- αδικία, βίαGreek
- violenciaSpanish
- vägivaldEstonian
- indarkeriaBasque
- väkivalta, rajuus, väkivaltaisuudet, voimakeinot, vääryysFinnish
- la violence, violenceFrench
- èiginn, brùidealachd, ainneartScottish Gaelic
- אלימותHebrew
- हिंसाHindi
- erőszakHungarian
- violenzaItalian
- 曲解, 歪曲, 猛威, 暴力Japanese
- 폭력Korean
- violentiaLatin
- tūkeri, whakarekerekeMāori
- насилство, неправдаMacedonian
- geweldDutch
- voldNorwegian
- gwałtowność, przemoc, gwałtPolish
- violência, injustiça, hostilidadePortuguese
- violențăRomanian
- неистовство, жестокость, сила, насилиеRussian
- हिंसाSanskrit
- silòvitōst, nèprāvda, násīlje, žestìnaSerbo-Croatian
- våldsverkan, våldSwedish
- şiddetTurkish
- насильствоUkrainian
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