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{
"term": "violence",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "violent behaviour that is intended to hurt or kill somebody",
"sensetop": "violence against somebody",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Police do not think this killing was a random **act of violence**."
},
{
"text": "He condemned the protesters' **use of violence** against the police.",
"contextForm": "violence against somebody"
},
{
"text": "**domestic violence** *(= between family members)*"
},
{
"text": "These people live under a constant **threat of violence**."
},
{
"text": "Our organization works with **victims of violence**."
},
{
"text": "Why do they always have to **resort to violence**?"
},
{
"text": "**Violence broke out** inside the prison last night."
},
{
"text": "**Violence erupted** between police and demonstrators."
},
{
"text": "Is there too much sex and violence on TV?"
},
{
"text": "Charlie was threatening violence against them both."
},
{
"text": "Children who witness violence between parents often develop problems."
},
{
"text": "Don't buy toys that glorify violence."
},
{
"text": "Hatred breeds violence."
},
{
"text": "He had a short temper and was prone to outbursts of violence."
},
{
"text": "In spite of sporadic violence, polling was largely orderly."
},
{
"text": "It was a predictable death for a man who had lived a life of violence."
},
{
"text": "Letters poured in complaining about the gratuitous violence on the show."
},
{
"text": "Observers have warned that the violence could escalate into armed conflict."
},
{
"text": "Political violence killed 29 people last week."
},
{
"text": "She had suffered years of violence and abuse."
},
{
"text": "TV violence threatens the health and welfare of young people."
},
{
"text": "The demonstration was marred by violence."
},
{
"text": "The enthusiasm of the protest spilled over into violence."
},
{
"text": "The former leader of the terrorist group has called for an end to the violence."
},
{
"text": "The peasants believed their only choice was to resort to violence."
},
{
"text": "The police are bracing themselves for an outbreak of violence."
},
{
"text": "There are fears of fresh violence if the strike continues."
},
{
"text": "There was surprisingly little graphic violence in the film."
},
{
"text": "They use their religion to justify violence"
},
{
"text": "Troops were called in to quell the violence."
},
{
"text": "UN peacekeepers are struggling to contain the escalating violence."
},
{
"text": "Under no circumstances should police use violence against protesters."
},
{
"text": "We are all capable of violence in certain circumstances."
},
{
"text": "We have to make people realize that violence only begets more violence."
},
{
"text": "We need to bring an end to the deadly violence in the region."
},
{
"text": "a refuge for victims of domestic violence"
},
{
"text": "a wave of violence against women"
},
{
"text": "attempts to rescue the country from endemic violence"
},
{
"text": "people who inflict violence on animals"
},
{
"text": "the men of violence who start wars"
},
{
"text": "violence among football supporters"
},
{
"text": "violence among young men"
},
{
"text": "violence between rival groups"
},
{
"text": "violence perpetrated by the army"
},
{
"text": "violence towards ethnic minorities"
},
{
"text": "violence within the family"
}
],
"topics": ["Crime and punishment", "War and conflict"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["considerable", "excessive", "extreme"],
"… of violence": ["level"],
"verb + violence": ["commit", "employ", "engage in"],
"violence + verb": ["break out", "erupt", "flare"],
"preposition": [
"violence against",
"violence among",
"violence between"
],
"phrases": [
"an act of violence",
"an end to violence",
"an eruption of violence"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "physical or emotional force and energy",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The violence of her feelings surprised him."
},
{
"text": "the violence of the eruption"
},
{
"text": "He reacted to the idea with some violence."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["suppressed"],
"preposition": ["with (a) violence"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to damage something or have a bad effect on it",
"labels": "(formal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "This version of the play does violence to Shakespeare's text."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈvaɪələns/",
"audio": "vi/violence/violence__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈvaɪələns/",
"audio": "vi/violence/violence__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: via Old French from Latin violentia, from violent- ‘vehement, violent’."
}