All violence synonyms
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V v noun violence
- infuriation β to make furious; enrage.
- hysterics β Usually, hysterics. a fit of uncontrollable laughter or weeping; hysteria.
- atrocity β An atrocity is a very cruel, shocking action.
- aggression β Aggression is a quality of anger and determination that makes you ready to attack other people.
- deleteriousness β The quality of being deleterious.
- aggressiveness β characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
- mayhem β Law. the crime of willfully inflicting a bodily injury on another so as to make the victim less capable of self-defense or, under modern statutes, so as to cripple or mutilate the victim.
- heat β the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- militancy β vigorously active and aggressive, especially in support of a cause: militant reformers.
- aggro β Aggro is the difficulties and problems that are involved in something.
- callousness β made hard; hardened.
- outrage β an act of wanton cruelty or violence; any gross violation of law or decency.
- attack β To attack a person or place means to try to hurt or damage them using physical violence.
- encounter β Unexpectedly experience or be faced with (something difficult or hostile).
- cruelness β The state of being cruel; cruelty.
- irateness β The state of being irate.
- ferociousness β savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- grievance β a wrong considered as grounds for complaint, or something believed to cause distress: Inequitable taxation is the chief grievance.
- banditry β Banditry is used to refer to acts of robbery and violence in areas where the rule of law has broken down.
- duress β compulsion by threat or force; coercion; constraint.
- fierceness β menacingly wild, savage, or hostile: fierce animals; a fierce look.
- molestation β to bother, interfere with, or annoy.
- extremism β The holding of extreme political or religious views; fanaticism.
- dynamism β The quality of being characterized by vigorous activity and progress.
- willfulness β deliberate, voluntary, or intentional: The coroner ruled the death willful murder.
- hang up β the way in which a thing hangs.
- abuse β Abuse of someone is cruel and violent treatment of them.
- banefulness β The state or quality of being baneful.
- fanaticism β fanatical character, spirit, or conduct.
- immoderation β lack of moderation.
- irritableness β Quality of being irritable.
- boiling point β The boiling point of a liquid is the temperature at which it starts to change into steam or vapour. For example, the boiling point of water is 100Β° centigrade.
- edginess β nervously irritable; impatient and anxious.
- harm β a U.S. air-to-surface missile designed to detect and destroy radar sites by homing on their emissions.
- foul play β any treacherous or unfair dealing, especially involving murder: We feared that he had met with foul play.
- coercion β Coercion is the act or process of persuading someone forcefully to do something that they do not want to do.
- intensity β the quality or condition of being intense.
- wrathfulness β The quality of being wrathful; wrath.
- impetuosity β the quality or condition of being impetuous.
- anger β Anger is the strong emotion that you feel when you think that someone has behaved in an unfair, cruel, or unacceptable way.
- dirty trick β act: unfair, dishonest
- monomania β (no longer in technical use) a psychosis characterized by thoughts confined to one idea or group of ideas.
- obsessiveness β being, pertaining to, or resembling an obsession: an obsessive fear of illness.
- horsepower β a foot-pound-second unit of power, equivalent to 550 foot-pounds per second, or 745.7 watts.
- impatience β lack of patience.
- mixup β an act or instance of mixing.
adjective violence
- wildness β living in a state of nature; not tamed or domesticated: a wild animal; wild geese.
adj violence
- ferocity β a ferocious quality or state; savage fierceness.