Violence vs Overpowering - What's the difference?
violence | overpowering |
Extreme force.
Action which causes destruction, pain, or suffering.
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(figuratively) Injustice, wrong.
(obsolete) ravishment; rape; violation
That overpowers; so strong as to be overwhelming.
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As a noun violence
is extreme force.As a verb overpowering is
.As an adjective overpowering is
that overpowers; so strong as to be overwhelming.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
Hypernyms
* (extreme force) forceAntonyms
* peace, nonviolenceSee also
* domestic violence * reverse domestic violence ----overpowering
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.}}