violence
US: /ˈvaɪəɫəns/
UK: /vˈaɪələns/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
violence /'vaiələns/- danh từ
- sự dữ dội, sự mãnh liệt; tính hung dữ
- tính chất quá khích
- bạo lực, sự cưỡng bức
- to do violence to: hành hung, cưỡng bức; làm ngược lại
- to do violence to one's principles: làm ngược lại với nguyên tắc mình đề ra
- robbery with violence: tội ăn trộm có cầm khí giới
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun [U]1 ~ (against sb) violent behaviour that is intended to hurt or kill sb: crimes / acts / threats of violence + He condemned the protesters' use of violence against the police. + domestic violence (= between family members) + Is there too much sex and violence on TV?
2 physical or emotional force and energy: The violence of her feelings surprised him. + the violence of the eruption + He reacted to the idea with some violence.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 (brute or physical) force, might, mightiness, power, strength, severity, intensity, energy, vehemence, ferocity, ferociousness, fierceness, fury, vigour; destructiveness, virulence:
The violence of the storm continued unabated throughout the night. The violence of the seizures diminished after she was given the medication.
2 bestiality, brutality, barbarity, savagery, cruelty, bloodthirstiness, wildness, ferocity, frenzy, fury, passion, fierceness, vehemence, murderousness:
The marauders attacked with a violence that terrified the villagers.
3 do violence to.
(a) harm, damage, injure:
The scandal did violence to her reputation. Humphrey's singing could do violence to any melody.
(b) warp, twist, distort:
In reporting that her views are antifeminist, the newspaper did violence to the import of her speech.
Collocation
1 behaviour that hurts other people physically
ADJ.
considerable, great, excessive, extreme, large-scale, serious | fresh
There are fears of fresh violence if the strike continues.
| continuing, escalating, growing | gratuitous, unnecessary
Letters poured in complaining about the gratuitous violence on the show.
| mindless, random, uncontrolled | brutal | criminal, unlawful | endemic, institutionalized, widespread
attempts to rescue the country from endemic violence
| sporadic
In spite of sporadic violence, polling was largely orderly.
| domestic, physical, sexual | drug-related, election-related, etc. | communal, ethnic, inter-communal, inter-ethnic, racial, sectarian | political, revolutionary, terrorist | left-wing, right-wing
QUANT.
level
VERB + VIOLENCE
commit, engage in, inflict, perpetrate, resort to, turn to, use
people who inflict violence on animals violence perpetrated by the army The peasants believed their only choice was to resort to violence. Under no circumstances should police use violence against protesters.
| suffer
She had suffered years of violence and abuse.
| encourage, incite, provoke | denounce, deplore, hate, reject | breed
Hatred breeds violence.
| spill over into
The enthusiasm of the protest spilled over into violence.
| contain
UN peacekeepers are struggling to contain the escalating violence.
| end, quell
Troops were called in to quell the violence.
| be capable of
We are all capable of violence in certain circumstances.
VIOLENCE + VERB
break out, erupt, flare, occur
Violence erupted outside the prison last night.
| mar sth
The demonstration was marred by violence.
| escalate, intensify, worsen
Observers have warned that the violence could escalate into full-scale armed conflict.
| spread
PREP.
~ against
violence against police officers
| ~ among
violence among football supporters
| ~ between
violence between rival ethnic groups
| ~ towards
violence towards ethnic minorities
| ~ within
violence within the family
PHRASES
an act of violence
Any act of violence against another player must be punished.
| an end to violence
The former leader of the terrorist group has called for an end to the violence.
| an eruption/outbreak of violence
The police are bracing themselves for an outbreak of violence.
| fear of violence, a life of violence
It was a predictable death for a man who had lived a life of violence.
| men of violence
the men of violence who start wars
| an outburst of violence
He had a short temper and was prone to outbursts of violence.
| a threat of violence, an upsurge in violence, a victim of violence
a refuge for victims of domestic violence
| violence begets/breeds violence
We have to make people realize that violence only begets more violence.
| a wave of violence
2 physical/emotional force
ADJ.
suppressed
PREP.
with (a) ~
He kissed her with suppressed violence.
Concise dictionary
'vaɪələnsnoun
+an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
+the property of being wild or turbulent
+a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.
