Associations to the word «Violence»

Wiktionary

VIOLENCE, noun. Extreme force.
VIOLENCE, noun. Action which causes destruction, pain, or suffering.
VIOLENCE, noun. Widespread fighting.
VIOLENCE, noun. (figuratively) Injustice, wrong.
VIOLENCE, noun. (obsolete) ravishment; rape; violation

Dictionary definition

VIOLENCE, 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".
VIOLENCE, noun. The property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence".
VIOLENCE, noun. A turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc..

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne