ANTIVIOLENCE Antonyms

• cruel or inhumane treatment

• a rude expression intended to offend or hurt

• improper or excessive use

• treat badly

• change the inherent purpose or function of something

• use foul or abusive language towards

• use wrongly or improperly or excessively

• a disposition to behave aggressively

• a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack

• violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked

• the act of initiating hostilities

• deliberately unfriendly behavior

• the trait of extreme cruelty

• a brutal barbarous savage act

• an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)

• opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings

• a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war

• a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests

• an incompatibility of dates or events

• opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot)

• a disagreement or argument about something important

• be in conflict

• go against, as of rules and laws

• a powerful effect or influence

• (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity

• physical energy or intensity

• group of people willing to obey orders

• a unit that is part of some military service

• an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)

• one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority

• a group of people having the power of effective action

• (of a law) having legal validity

• a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base

• to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means

• urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate

• move with force

• impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably

• squeeze like a wedge into a tight space

• force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically

• do forcibly; exert force

• take by force

• any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury

• the occurrence of a change for the worse

• the act of damaging something or someone

• cause or do harm to

• a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others

• a feeling of anger caused by being offended

• a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right

• the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score

• the action of attacking an enemy

• an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)

• the property of being wild or turbulent

• a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.

• the waging of armed conflict against an enemy

• a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply

• an active struggle between competing entities

• a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious

• make or wage war