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 are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats