physical violence
Hitting and hurting
Physical violence is the use of bodily force to harm, injure, or intimidate another person.
It includes hitting, kicking, pushing, choking, and any other act that causes physical pain or damage: The relationship ended after physical violence began.
The term often appears in legal and clinical contexts to distinguish from verbal, emotional, or psychological forms of abuse.
- child abuseHarm inflicted on minors
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- aggravated assaultCriminal attack with severe harm
- assaultViolent offensive act
- bodily harmDamage to one's person
torture · hate crime · crime of passion · trauma · injury · broken bones · blunt force · black eye · anger · PTSD · bullying · homicide · strangulation · death · power imbalance · desperation · brawl · bar fight
- aggressionhostility, attack, fight, combativeness, aggression
- violencebrutality, aggression, bloodshed, bloodbath, carnage
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Harmful speech targeting someone
psychological abuse · emotional abuse · verbal threats · verbal aggression · gaslighting
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Principled rejection of force
gentleness · tenderness · nurturing · peacefulness · pacifism
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Conflict ended without violence
diplomacy · negotiation · mediation · nonviolent resistance · peacemaking
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