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单词 violence
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violence
(vaɪələns )
1. uncountable noun B2
Violence is behaviour which is intended to hurt, injure, or kill people.
Twenty people were killed in the violence.
They threaten them with violence.
...domestic violence between family members.
Synonyms: brutality, bloodshed, savagery, fighting  
2. uncountable noun
If you do or say something with violence, you use a lot of force and energy in doing or saying it, often because you are angry. [literary]
'There's no need,' Amy said, with sudden violence.
The violence in her tone gave Alistair a shock.
Synonyms: intensity, passion, fury, force  
Quotations:
All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword Bible: St. Matthew
Keep violence in the mind
Where it belongsBrian AldissBarefoot in the Head
Collocations:
commit violence
So I ask all you people not to commit any more violence.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
History is crammed with violence committed in the name of God.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It's an incentive for them to commit more violence.
The Sun (2010)
condemn violence
The Dalai Lama himself has always condemned violence.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The violence was universally condemned.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The union condemned the violence as 'totally unacceptable' .
The Sun (2010)
condone violence
No one should condone violence and abuse at work.
The Sun (2015)
The party denies the charges and says it does not condone violence.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
I don't condone violence but I was glued to the screen.
The Sun (2008)
drunken violence
His record for drunken violence goes back years.
The Sun (2008)
The football match was marred by drunken violence.
The Sun (2008)
These laws are about the moral obligation we have to protect innocent people from drunken violence.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
end violence
Why do agreements to end violence too easily relapse into war?
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Previous efforts to end violence peacefully in other conflicts offer both hope and despair.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
We won't end this violence by jailing celebrities.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
escape violence
In total, 650,000 people fled northern Nigeria to escape violence.
Christianity Today (2000)
It was branded into my mind that the only way to escape the violence and crime of the ghetto was to work harder than the next person.
Christianity Today (2000)
Many others followed suit to escape the violence.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
ethnic violence
The city has experienced some of the nation's worst ethnic violence following elections.
The Sun (2008)
They're often sent to regions characterized by ethnic violence, civil unrest, and personal insecurity.
Christianity Today (2000)
The experiment with democracy in the 1990s became synonymous with economic chaos and ethnic violence.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
flee violence
We've always provided safety to people fleeing violence and extremism.
The Sun (2015)
Thousands of unaccompanied children have been arriving after fleeing violence and poverty at home.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Many Tamil refugees who fled the violence in Sri Lanka settled in Norwegian towns.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
fuel violence
The violence was fuelled by rumour.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
These conditions helped fuel the post-election violence and they are continuing to hold the country back.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The violence was fuelled by ethnic hatred.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
gang violence
She was arrested as part of an investigation into gang violence.
The Sun (2015)
Anxious to escape gang violence and give her son a better life, she moved to America.
The Sun (2016)
Friends claim that he was an innocent victim of gang violence.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
glorify violence
I wonder if the books could be seen as glorifying violence.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
And music companies and games manufacturers must stop glorifying violence.
The Sun (2008)
Friends on Facebook warn him the photographs glorify violence.
The Sun (2015)
gratuitous violence
What lets the film down is its gratuitous violence.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
He was the victim of wholly gratuitous violence in the prison where he was detained.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
This was gratuitous violence and the wounded officer is lucky still to be alive.
The Sun (2006)
gun violence
They will discuss ways to combat gang and gun violence.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Gun violence is common and the area is notoriously difficult to police.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
'We must take action to stop gun violence now,' she tweeted.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
halt the violence
None of this will halt the violence.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Riot police, some with dogs, struggled for two hours to halt the violence.
The Sun (2015)
France has deployed 1,600 troops in an attempt to halt the chaotic violence between rival militias.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
mindless violence
We don't want a return to the mindless violence that tarnished football in the '70s and '80s.
The Sun (2012)
They have had their family torn apart by an act of murderous, mindless violence.
The Sun (2013)
The video images of mindless violence will remain indelibly imprinted on all our memories.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
provoke violence
I did not provoke the violence.
The Sun (2010)
The danger is that such a move would provoke further violence against the innocent.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
But a main concern is that extremists are still intent on provoking violence.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
quell the violence
The US Marines were called in to help quell the violence.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Yet the cash has done little to quell the violence.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Now police have called in armed reinforcements to patrol the town and quell the violence.
The Sun (2007)
racial violence
There has been no noticeable decrease in the amount of racial violence in the area.
Christianity Today (2000)
The country had to overcome not only poverty but racial violence.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century (1994)
random violence
There is no random violence in the film.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
If you look at crime statistics, young men are most vulnerable to random violence.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Then from his window in 1917 he witnessed random violence as the revolutionaries seized control.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
renounce violence
The group renounced violence to enter politics.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The EU urges all factions to disarm and renounce violence.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
You'd think he'd have renounced all violence after that.
The Sun (2013)
sectarian violence
The contest sparked sectarian violence across the country.
Christianity Today (2000)
There's a high threat of kidnap, terrorism and sectarian violence.
The Sun (2015)
It was a tense time in Baghdad, with the sectarian violence that would tear the city apart just beginning.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
street violence
Street violence is now shockingly high and rising.
The Sun (2007)
Have you been a victim of random street violence?
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Some politicians seem to think the answer to binge drinking and street violence is stricter enforcement of the law and more prisons.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
terrorist violence
The attacks highlight India's particular vulnerability to terrorist violence.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
2015 was Europe's deadliest year for terrorist violence for more than a decade.
The Sun (2016)
Elsewhere, the likelihood of being the victim of terrorist violence remains small.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
use of violence
And it should be clear about the difference between, say, religious conservatism and a belief in the use of violence for religious ends.
Times, Sunday Times
In the 1970s, caciques began to expel dissidents from their communities for challenging their power, initially with the use of violence.
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All were properly convicted because the death was the outcome of the agreed use of violence.
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The frequent calling of crusades habituated the clergy to the use of violence.
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The criticism has been accompanied by dissent within the animal rights movement itself about the use of violence, and increasing attention from the police and intelligence communities.
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violence flared
Violence flared in Madrid, where about 1,300 riot police clashed with protesters.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
One person was shot in the stomach as violence flared at a gig yesterday evening.
The Sun (2007)
Violence flared between two groups of women and the fight spilled into the foyer.
The Sun (2013)
violence is common
Gun violence is common and the area is notoriously difficult to police.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
She grew up in a household where domestic violence was common.
The Sun (2016)
Violence was common and legal redress difficult.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
witness violence
The judge said that members of the public who witnessed the violence were shocked.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Often the children witnessed violence and angry scenes at home.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
I am no stranger to witnessing violence and hostility inside football grounds.
The Sun (2012)
youth violence
We must continue our fight to tackle youth violence and get knives off our streets.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The nation is in the grip of an epidemic of deadly youth violence.
The Sun (2008)
The Home Office is also diverting resources to tackling gang and youth violence.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
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