Offense vs Violence - What's the difference?
offense | violence |
(en noun) (US)
The act of offending:
# a crime or sin
#* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=2 # an affront, insult or injury.
#* Dryden
The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure.
) A strategy and tactics employed when in position to score; ''contrasted with defense.
) The portion of a team dedicated to scoring when in position to do so; ''contrasted with defense.
Extreme force.
Action which causes destruction, pain, or suffering.
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, volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Widespread fighting.
(figuratively) Injustice, wrong.
(obsolete) ravishment; rape; violation
As a verb offense
is .As a noun violence is
extreme force.offense
English
(wikipedia offense)Alternative forms
* (British standard spelling) offenceNoun
citation, passage=The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}
- I have given my opinion against the authority of two great men, but I hope without offence to their memories.
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* defense (US), defence (Commonwealth)Derived terms
* hanging offense, hanging offence * indictable offense, indictable offence * summary offense, summary offence * regulatory offense, regulatory offenceSee also
* crime * sin ----violence
English
Noun
Mark Tran
Denied an education by war, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools