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violence
noun as in extreme force, intensity
Strongest matches
assault, attack, bloodshed, brutality, clash, confusion, cruelty, disorder, disturbance, fighting, rampage, struggle, terrorism
Strong matches
abandon, acuteness, bestiality, blowup, coercion, compulsion, constraint, destructiveness, duress, ferocity, fervor, fierceness, flap, frenzy, fury, fuss, harshness, murderousness, onslaught, passion, power, roughness, ruckus, rumble, savagery, severity, sharpness, storm, storminess, tumult, turbulence, uproar, vehemence, wildness
Weak matches
Example Sentences
Depicting the casually abusive, chauvinist male pig we’ve seen countless times before isn’t unique enough to warrant inflicting audiences with more run-of-the-mill sequences of abject violence against women, or even robots who look like women.
What about Labour's promise to halve violence against women and girls?
He emerges as Emilia Pérez, a philanthropist who puts her illicit fortune into a charity to help people find loved ones who “disappeared” in the cartel violence she once fomented.
They decided to arrest the younger of the couple, a 16-year-old, on suspicion of domestic violence, detaining her without force — or so they wrote in their report.
The US' Dodd-Frank Act passed in 2010, and a similar piece of EU legislation, is aimed at ensuring that companies purchasing tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold – so-called "conflict minerals" – are not inadvertently funding violence.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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