Violence : (noun) 1: 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" [syn:
force]
2: the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's
violence" [syn: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury,
vehemence, wildness]
3: a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.