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violence
Synonyms and Antonyms of violence
- an act of violence caused the window to be shattered
coercion, compulsion, constraint, duress, pressure
barbarity, brutality, savagery
damage, detriment, harm, hurt, impairment, injury
crippling, maiming, mayhem, mutilation
assault, attack, bashing, battering, battery, batting, beating, belting, bludgeoning, buffeting, clubbing, cudgeling (or cudgelling), drubbing, flogging, hammering, lacing, licking, mauling, paddling, pelting, pommeling (or pommelling), pounding, pummeling (also pummelling), smashing, socking, thrashing, thumping, tromping, walloping, whaling, whipping
frenzy, fury, onslaught, outbreak, outrage, paroxysm, rage, rampage, revolt, riot, rupture, shock, storm, terror, threat, tumult, turbulence, upheaval, uproar
- taken aback by the violence of her denial of any wrongdoing
- some people were taken aback by the violence with which the magazine's art critic attacked the exhibition
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