Usually means: Intentional harm to persons, property.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word violence:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. violence: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. violence: Merriam-Webster
  3. violence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. violence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. violence: Collins English Dictionary
  6. violence: Vocabulary.com
  7. Violence, violence: Wordnik
  8. violence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. violence: Wiktionary
  10. violence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. violence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. violence: Dictionary.com
  13. violence: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. violence: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Violence (album), The Violence (song), The Violence, Violence (Editors album), Violence (Grimes and i o song), Violence (Nothingface album), Violence (film), Violence (role-playing game), Violence (song), Violence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Violence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. violence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. violence: Rhymezone
  19. Violence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. violence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. violence: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. violence: FreeDictionary.org
  23. violence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. violence: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. violence: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. violence: Infoplease Dictionary

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. violence: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  4. violence: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. violence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Violence: Merck Manuals
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  5. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  6. violence: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Violence: Catholic Encyclopedia

(Note: See violences as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Extreme force.
noun:  Physical action which causes destruction, harm, pain, or suffering.
noun:  Widespread fighting.
noun:  (figuratively) Injustice, wrong.
verb:  (nonstandard) To subject to violence.

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