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1
the use of brute strength to cause harm to a person or property
- an act of violence caused the window to be shattered
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- 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
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2
the quality or state of being forceful (as in expression)
- taken aback by the violence of her denial of any wrongdoing
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3
depth of feeling
- some people were taken aback by the violence with which the magazine's art critic attacked the exhibition
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The first known use of violence was in the 14th century
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