violence

violence is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 17 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force.
2. noun. Injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault.
3. noun. Ravishment; rape; constupration.
4. transitive verb. To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel.
5. noun. 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: force

6. noun. the property of being wild or turbulent

   "the storm's violence"

   Synonyms: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, wildness

7. noun. a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.

Synonyms

force, ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, wildness

Common word forms

violences

Words from these letters

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