暴力(ぼうりょく)

暴力(ぼうりょく) refers to violence or the use of physical force.

Common collocations

• 暴力(ぼうりょく)を振(ふ)るう (to use violence, to be violent)
• 暴力(ぼうりょく)を受(う)ける (to suffer violence)
• 暴力(ぼうりょく)行為(こうい) (act of violence)
• 暴力団(ぼうりょくだん) (organized crime group, yakuza)

Compounds

• 家庭内(かていない)暴力(ぼうりょく) (domestic violence, DV)
• 言葉(ことば)の暴力(ぼうりょく) (verbal abuse)

Related words

• 乱暴(らんぼう) (rough, violent behavior)