English-Spanish translations for violence

• violencia
  La violencia engendra más violencia. Violence breeds more violence.
  No se puede contrarrestar la violencia con más violencia. Violence cannot be met with violence.
  La violencia genera violencia y la venganza genera venganza. Violence begets violence, and revenge begets revenge.

Definition of violence

• Extreme force
• Action which causes destruction, pain, or suffering
• Widespread fighting
• Injustice, wrong
• ravishment; rape; violation
• To subject to violence

Examples

• The violence of the storm, fortunately, was more awesome than destructive
• We try to avoid violence in resolving conflicts
• Violence between the government and the rebels continues
• The translation does violence to the original novel

Related words

• nonviolence
• ultraviolence
• antiviolence
• domestic violence
• act of violence
• intimate partner violence
• police violence
• willingness to use violence
• victim of violence