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vi·o·lence V0110000 (vī′ə-ləns)n.1. Behavior or treatment in which physical force is exerted for the purpose of causing damage or injury: the violence of the rioters.2. a. Intense force or great power, as in natural phenomena: the violence of a tornado.b. Extreme or powerful emotion or expression: the violence of their tirades.3. Distortion of meaning or intent: do violence to a text.violence (ˈvaɪələns) n1. the exercise or an instance of physical force, usually effecting or intended to effect injuries, destruction, etc2. powerful, untamed, or devastating force: the violence of the sea. 3. great strength of feeling, as in language, etc; fervour4. an unjust, unwarranted, or unlawful display of force, esp such as tends to overawe or intimidate5. do violence to a. to inflict harm upon; damage or violate: they did violence to the prisoners. b. to distort or twist the sense or intention of: the reporters did violence to my speech. [C13: via Old French from Latin violentia impetuosity, from violentus violent]vi•o•lence (ˈvaɪ ə ləns)
n. 1. swift and intense force. 2. rough or injurious physical force, action, or treatment. 3. an unjust or unwarranted exertion of force or power. 4. a violent act or proceeding. 5. rough or immoderate vehemence, as of feeling or language. 6. damage, as through distortion of meaning or fact: to do violence to a translation. Violence See Also: ADVANCING, BEHAVIOR - Battered to and fro as a rat is shaken by a dog —Rudyard Kipling
- Came after him like an antelope —William Diehl
- Came at him like a kamikaze —T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Cored him like an apple —John Yount
- Dealt out blows with the precision of a punch press —Natascha Wodin
- Drove his fist straight in like a saber thrust —Joseph Wambaugh
- Grabbed hold of me, as a cat grabs a mouse —George Garrett
- Hit it [a man’s chin] as if I was driving the last spike on the first transcontinental railroad —Raymond Chandler
- Hit like a tank —Ken Stabler and Berry Stainback
- Howling and clawing at each other like wild beasts in heat —Hunter S. Thompson
- I can flatten him out like a crepe in a frying-pan —Henry Van Dyke
- I could slice you down like cold meat before you could whisper Mercy —Davis Grubb
In Grubb’s novel, The Golden Sickle, the man making this threat is wielding a knife. - I’ll crush his ribs in like a rotten hazelnut —Emily Bronte
- I’m gonna pop your eyes like busted eggs —William Kennedy
- Knocked to the ground like a winged partridge —T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Lunged [into the midst of group of people] like a whirlwind on a summer’s day —Flannery O’Connor
- [Mobster Sam Giancana, who) ordered killings as easily as he ordered linguini —Kitty Kelley
- The propensity for violence exists like a layer of buried molten magma underlying all human topography —Robert Ardrey
- Put me in an arm lock as easily as he might twist a soft pretzel —James Crumley
- Showered her blows … with the force and rapidity of a drummer beating his drum —Guy De Maupassant
- Slapped her like a volleyball —Rochelle Ratner
- Terorism is a natural by-product of modern life. Like air pollution, family breakdown, excessively casual sexual promiscuity and exaltation of greed —Russell Baker, New York Times, 1986
- Threw themselves at him like dogs at a bear —Mikhail Bulgakov
- Violence and wrong are as a dream which rolls from steadfast truth, an unreturning stream —Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Violence (was an inescapable factor of the heart … ) an ineradicable thing … like a bad seed —William March
- Violence in a house is like a worm on vegetables —Hebrew proverb
- Violence is as American as cherry pie —Eldridge Cleaver
- The violence of my impulses [to harm another person] was still within me, like the sharp end of a splinter improperly removed —Scott Spencer
- Violence weighed him down like a pack —Harris Downey
- Violent and ruthless as a puppy —James Mills
- Violent death is like a monster. The closer you get to it, the more damage you sustain —Sue Grafton
- Violent death leaves an aura, like an energy field that repels the observer —Sue Grafton
- Was on him like a falling tree —Jerry Bumpus
- A wound like a burst fruit —Jean Stafford
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  violence - 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"forceaggression, hostility - violent action that is hostile and usually unprovokeddomestic violence - violence or physical abuse directed toward your spouse or domestic partner; usually violence by men against womenroad rage - violence exhibited by drivers in trafficpublic violence, riot - a public act of violence by an unruly mob | | 2. |  violence - the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence"ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, vehemence, wildness, furyintensiveness, intensity - high level or degree; the property of being intensesavageness, savagery - the property of being untamed and ferocious; "the coastline is littered with testaments to the savageness of the waters"; "a craving for barbaric splendor, for savagery and color and the throb of drums" | | 3. |  violence - a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.Sturm und Drang, upheaval, turbulence - a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally); "the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence"rage - violent state of the elements; "the sea hurled itself in thundering rage against the rocks" |
violencenoun1. brutality, bloodshed, savagery, fighting, terrorism, frenzy, thuggery, destructiveness, bestiality, strong-arm tactics (informal), rough handling, bloodthirstiness, murderousness Twenty people were killed in the violence.2. force, power, strength, might, ferocity, brute force, fierceness, forcefulness, powerfulness The violence of the blow forced the hammer through his skull.3. intensity, passion, fury, force, cruelty, severity, fervour, sharpness, harshness, vehemence `There's no need,' she snapped with sudden violence.4. power, turbulence, wildness, raging, tumult, roughness, boisterousness, storminess The house was destroyed in the violence of the storm.Quotations
"All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword" Bible: St. Matthew
"Violence is one of the most fun things to watch" [Quentin Tarantino at the screening of Pulp Fiction in Cannes]
"Keep violence in the mind"
"Where it belongs" [Brian Aldiss Barefoot in the Head]violencenoun1. Power used to overcome resistance:coercion, compulsion, constraint, duress, force, pressure, strength.2. Exceptionally great concentration, power, or force, especially in activity:depth (often used in plural), ferociousness, ferocity, fierceness, fury, intensity, pitch, severity, vehemence, vehemency.Translationsviolent (ˈvaiələnt) adjective1. having, using, or showing, great force. There was a violent storm at sea; a violent earthquake; He has a violent temper. 強烈的 强烈的2. caused by force. a violent death. 殘暴的，暴力所致的 由暴力引起的ˈviolently adverb 強烈地，殘暴地 强烈地ˈviolence noun great roughness and force, often causing severe physical injury or damage. I was amazed at the violence of his temper; She was terrified by the violence of the storm. 猛烈，暴力 暴力，猛烈，强烈 violence
violence the infliction of physical harm to the human body, or to human property by physical force, using the body or weapons. The ability to marshal physical force is often a determining factor in social actions, e.g. in domestic relations between husbands and wives (see WIFE BATTERING), or parents and children. In politics, the sustaining of a claim to legitimate monopoly of control over the means of violence within a territory (including defence of the realm), is a defining feature of the STATE. Equally, however, the threat of a recourse to violence against rulers by the ruled acts as a major constraint on the powers of rulers. See also SOREL, REVOLUTION, WARFARE, MILITARY INTERVENTION (IN POLITICS).Violence the use by certain classes (social groups) of various forms of compulsion, including armed coercion, in relation to other classes (social groups) for the purpose of acquiring or preserving economic and political dominance or certain rights or privileges. Marxism has shown that the systematic use of violence in history has been associated primarily with the existence of antagonistic classes, that is, with objective factors determined ultimately by the level of development of productive forces. Violence in the hands of the exploiter classes is one of the chief means of preserving or strengthening a given system of antagonistic social relations and one of the conditions of its “normal” functioning. Marx linked the distinctive role of violence in history with change in concrete historical forms of alienation of labor and methods of compelling labor. In the slaveholding mode of production, the slaveholder-master plays the role of organizer of the activities of his dependent slaves; the state fulfills the function of supplying the labor force and keeping it in submission. Under feudalism the hierarchically organized ruling class relies on the expropriation of land, which includes the producers who work on the land. In bourgeois society, which is based on private property, alienation of labor takes on the appearance of the free exchange of goods between the owners of embodied labor (capital) and of live labor, or the labor force (the proletariat). Under capitalism the preservation of relations of exploitation is masked by the apparent “freedom” of the worker; in capitalism, naturally, the role of distorted ideological forms of social consciousness increases. However, in decisive moments of the class struggle, the bourgeoisie resorts unhesitatingly to violence, revealing the exploitative essence of the antagonistic system of relations. During the age of imperialism the policies of the ruling classes tend to reject nominally democratic methods and to establish openly violent, fascist military dictatorships. In ideology, social demagoguery is complemented with a frank apologia for violence (the cult of power, theories of the elite, racist theories, etc.), which was expressed in its concentrated form in fascism. Ruling exploiter classes have widely applied and continue to apply violence in international relations as well, unleashing wars aimed at the robbery and the enslavement of peoples and striving to maintain their hegemony over oppressed nations. The rising, progressive classes (for example, the bourgeoisie during the period of struggle against feudalism or the working class), in turn, use violence to break a system of obsolete social relations and to subvert the classes associated with the system, who do not wish to forego their own interests and privileges. Marxism-Leninism rejects theories that ascribe to violence a decisive role in history (E. Dühring). At the same time, it does not at all deny the role of violence in various mechanisms for the realization of historic inevitability, especially during periods of social revolution. Tracing the genesis of the capitalist formation, Marx demonstrated how violence helped to destroy previous social relations and to create conditions for the existence of capital—it forced the pauper, by means of “bloody legislation,” to become a worker. Methods of primary accumulation, wrote Marx, “partly depend on brute force,” whereby “they all employ the power of the state, the concentrated and organized force of society, to hasten, hothouse fashion, the process of transformation of the feudal mode of production into the capitalist mode and to shorten the transition. Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one. It is itself an economic power” (K. Marx and F. Engels, Soch., 2nd ed., vol. 23, p. 761). Marxism, having explained the objective role of violence in history, was the first to resolve the question of the conscious use of violence by the proletariat in its revolutionary struggle for communism. The Marxist formulation of the question of violence proceeds from the objective laws and conditions of the class struggle. It requires that violence be reduced to the necessary minimum at each stage of struggle, when there is a choice. The experience of history has shown that the ruling classes do not voluntarily forego their own privileges and that they use all available means in their struggle against the oppressed classes, even mass terror. The resistance of the obsolescent classes compels the revolutionary classes to resort to violent retaliatory measures, including armed struggle. “When there is no reactionary violence, against which it is necessary to fight,” wrote F. Engels, “there can be no talk of any kind of revolutionary violence” (ibid., vol. 38, p. 419). The extent and form of revolutionary violence depend primarily on the level and form of resistance offered by the classes that are being overthrown. Along with this, in choosing a crueler or more humane form of revolutionary upheaval, an important role is also played by the level of moral and intellectual development of the working class itself and its parties and leaders, as well as by other circumstances, such as, for example, the legacy of war (K. Marx, ibid., vol. 23, p. 9; V. I. Lenin, Poln. sobr. soch., 5th ed., vol. 36, pp. 199–200). From its very inception, Marxism proposed the path of peaceful revolution under certain conditions as a possible alternative to the nonpeaceful revolutionary path. But no far-reaching social revolution is conceivable without mass political action, coercive measures applied to the exploiters, and the establishment of the dictatorship of the revolutionary classes—that is, specific forms of social violence. The task of the construction of socialism necessitates coercive measures against resistant elements of the exploiter classes (the bourgeoisie, the kulaks). However, the social death of the exploiter classes that is inevitable in a socialist society does not demand the repression of all the exploiters, let alone their physical destruction. Resolutely suppressing the resistance of forces hostile to socialism, the proletarian state affords loyal elements full opportunity to use their knowledge and abilities in the construction of a new society and to become its full and equal members. In the period of the building of socialism the basic methods become not coercion but persuasion, education, and organization of the masses. The concrete historical conditions and the level of development of the particular country determine the interrelationship of these methods. At the same time, under socialism methods of coercion are still used against antisocial elements—thieves, parasites, criminals, and hooligans. New international conditions, associated with the growth of socialism and the international anti-imperialist movement, have enabled the Communist parties to suggest that violence be banished from the sphere of international relations even in the period of the coexistence of capitalist and socialist states and that it is possible to avert a new world war even before the complete victory of socialism on earth. Under contemporary conditions, where there exists a world socialist system, revolutionary processes in a number of countries are able to develop in less violent forms. Previously, the bourgeoisie was stronger than the proletariat and imposed upon it the bloodiest forms of struggle; in the present-day era the proletariat has the opportunity to thrust on the bourgeoisie more humane forms of struggle. Nevertheless, the world communist movement, drawing from the experience of history, emphasizes in its program documents that a “nonpeaceful transition to socialism” is always a possibility. The proletariat may be compelled by the resistance of the forces of reaction to change the form of struggle and to use armed coercion . A correct approach to the problem of violence was similarly developed in the communist movement in its systematic struggle against opportunistic ideas. Revisionist concepts arise from exaggeration of the legal potentials of a bourgeois democracy, which supposedly permits workers’ parties to introduce socialism without the establishment of a dictatorship of the proletariat. Marxist-Leninist parties conduct an unrelenting struggle against revisionism and against right-wing opportunism, which paralyzes the revolutionary will of the working class. There is also nothing in common between revolutionary Marxism and the various types of leftist concepts, the holders of which absolutize the significance of armed violent actions during the revolutionary struggle of the oppressed classes or attempt to introduce methods of “barracks communism” into the practice of socialist construction. The Marxist understanding of violence is the object of systematic attacks and falsification in contemporary anticommunist literature. Bourgeois propagandists ignore the fact that bourgeois society itself is a structure that systematically practices violence in relation to the toiling masses and the oppressed nations carrying on just national liberation struggles. Depicting communists as worshipers of terror and violence, they remain silent about the fact that the proletariat is forced to use violence that is temporary and limited in nature. The consistent development of socialist democracy in the socialist countries, the struggle of the Communist parties of the capitalist countries for the renewal and expansion of democracy and against the reactionary dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, and the active policies of the socialist states aimed at strengthening the principles of peaceful coexistence increasingly expose and refute the inventions of the ideologists of anticommunism. In their policies communists follow the clear precepts of the classics of Marxism-Leninism. “Violence is, of course, alien to our ideals,” emphasized V. I. Lenin, and this ideal of communism corresponds to the objective tendency of the historical process, in which “the entire trend of development is toward abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another” (V. I. Lenin, ibid., vol. 30, p. 122). REFERENCESMarx, K. K apital, ch. 24. In K. Marx and F. Engels, Soch., 2nd ed., vol. 23.
Engels, F. Anti-Dü hring, sec. 2, chs. 2–4. Ibid., vol. 20, pp. 162–70.
Engels, F. “Rol’ nasiliia ν istorii.” Ibid., vol. 21.
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Lenin, V. I. “Kak burzhuaziia ispol’zuet renegatov.” Ibid., vol. 30.
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Fedoseev, P. “Materialisticheskoe ponimanie istorii i ’teoriia nasiliia.’ “Kommunist, 1964, no. 7.E. G. PLIMAK What does it mean when you dream about violence?Horrifying scenes of violence and destruction may indicate an overwhelming fear of the loss of one’s sense of power and control. Because of this fear, the dreamer may be in rage at others. An upheaval may have taken place in the dreamer’s work or personal life prior to such a dream. Violence (dreams)Research shows that most dreams are unpleasant. Violent dreams are relatively common and may be a reflection of the confusion and conflict that the dreamer experiences in daily life. Dreams with violent themes suggest that the dreamer has unconscious negative emotions such as fear, anxiety, and anger. If you are not dealing with these feeling consciously, your dreams are compensating and bringing into awareness the need for honest reflection and emotional balance in daily life.violence
violence [vi´o-lens] great force, either physical or emotional, usually exerted in order to damage or otherwise abuse something or someone.horizontal violence violence directed toward one's peers.risk for violence: self-directed or directed at others a nursing diagnosis accepted by the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association, defined as behaviors by an individual that can be physically harmful to either the self or others. Related factors include antisocial character, catatonic excitement, panic states, rage reactions, organic brain syndrome, and toxic reactions to drugs. Defining characteristics include aggressive body language, verbalization of hostility, boasting to others about prior abuse, increased motor activity, and overt and aggressive acts, or suicidal tendencies, depression, possession of weapons, history of drug abuse, and inability to verbalize feelings.violence The threatened or actual use of physical force against another person, oneself, a group or a community, which results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury or death.Patient discussion about violenceQ. What should I do if I think there is a domestic violence in my building? I think there is a case of domestic violence going on in with my neighbors. I have heard a man hitting a woman and a woman screaming, things being thrown, etc. This type of event will happen several times a week, lasting all day. I'm not sure where my place is on this, since I don't know them, and I don’t even know what neighbor it is, but I hate just sitting here doing nothing while a man is beating a woman. I don’t know what to do. Please help.A. I have been on the receiving end of domestic violence. I have only been out for about 1yr and 3 months. I almost lost my children due to the issues. The best thing you can do is report it. Even though the person will never leave the situation until either someone intervenes, or they almost lose their life. They can get possibly die from it. domestic issues tend to escalate instead of subsiding. Also there is the problem that the person in the situation may have been threatened and their self esteem is usually in the gutter. I wasnt allowed out of my house and when I did go out I had to look at the ground. If my boyfriend thought that i was looking at someone male or female I usually got hit. Q. Is “domestic violence” can be considered a medical issue? Is it curable? My partner is showing scary signs of violence…can it be treated with some sort of medication?A. you can also tyr to get him into an anger management class,that might also help both of you. More discussions about violenceViolence
Related to Violence: domestic violence, School violenceVIOLENCE. The abuse of force. Theorie des Lois Criminelles, 32. That force which is employed against common right, against the laws, and against public liberty. Merl. h. t, 2. In cases of robbery, in order to convict the accused, it is requisite to prove that the act was done with violence; but this violence is not confined to an actual assault of the person, by beating, knocking down, or forcibly wresting from him on the contrary, whatever goes to intimidate or overawe, by the apprehension of personal violence, or by fear of life, with a view to compel the delivery of property equally falls within its limits. Alison, Pr. Cr. Law of Scotl. 228; 4 Binn. R. 379; 2 Russ. on Cr. 61; 1 Hale P. C. 553. When an article is merely snatched, as by a sudden pull, even though a momentary force be exerted, it is not such violence as to constitute a robbery. 2 East, P. C. 702; 2 Russ. Cr. 68; Dig. 4, 2, 2 and 3. violence
Related to violence: domestic violence, School violenceSynonyms for violencenoun brutalitySynonyms- brutality
- bloodshed
- savagery
- fighting
- terrorism
- frenzy
- thuggery
- destructiveness
- bestiality
- strong-arm tactics
- rough handling
- bloodthirstiness
- murderousness
noun forceSynonyms- force
- power
- strength
- might
- ferocity
- brute force
- fierceness
- forcefulness
- powerfulness
noun intensitySynonyms- intensity
- passion
- fury
- force
- cruelty
- severity
- fervour
- sharpness
- harshness
- vehemence
noun powerSynonyms- power
- turbulence
- wildness
- raging
- tumult
- roughness
- boisterousness
- storminess
Synonyms for violencenoun power used to overcome resistanceSynonyms- coercion
- compulsion
- constraint
- duress
- force
- pressure
- strength
noun exceptionally great concentration, power, or force, especially in activitySynonyms- depth
- ferociousness
- ferocity
- fierceness
- fury
- intensity
- pitch
- severity
- vehemence
- vehemency
Synonyms for violencenoun an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)SynonymsRelated Words- aggression
- hostility
- domestic violence
- road rage
- public violence
- riot
noun the property of being wild or turbulentSynonyms- ferocity
- fierceness
- furiousness
- vehemence
- wildness
- fury
Related Words- intensiveness
- intensity
- savageness
- savagery
noun a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etcRelated Words- Sturm und Drang
- upheaval
- turbulence
- rage
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