the state of being violent; cruel and harmful behaviour or actions
extreme force, intensity
Cases of word usage
1) using threats, imprisonment or violence (to compel a person to do something) (duress)
2) of, producing, inflammation; to produce anger, acts of violence etc (inflammatory)
3) a serious mental illness causing great excitement, violence (mania)
4) using, supporting the use of, force or violence (militant)
5) an offence which is less serious than murder, violence etc (misdemeanor)
6) a member of 'the Quakers' or the 'Society of Friends', a Christian group that holds informal meetings and is opposed to violence (quaker)
7) to fill (people) with terror by threats or acts of violence (terrorize)
