#violent

• To assault — To attack someone intentionally or spontaneously, resorting to physical violence, verbal threats, psychological pressure, or insults to cause harm, intimidate them, or violate their dignity and personal integrity. Broadly, the action defines any hostile or intrusive behavior that jeopardizes safety.
• Assaulting — The act of assaulting; physically, verbally, or psychologically attacking a person or a group through violent deeds, threats, or abusive behaviors. Unlike the abstract term 'aggression', which describes the general phenomenon or state of hostility, the process of assaulting defines the concrete execution of the violent act exerted upon the victim.
• To assault — A rare and bookish neologistic variant of the verb 'agresa' (to assault), occasionally used in old jurisprudence texts or early legal translations to denote the act of committing an aggression or attacking a person. In modern Romanian, it is considered a redundant derivation, with the standard 'agresa' being overwhelmingly preferred.
• Aggression — An unprovoked, illegal, and violent act, behavior, or attack directed against the physical or moral integrity of a person or against the sovereignty of a state. In criminal law, it constitutes a serious offense involving force or threats, while in international relations, it denotes the recourse to armed force by a state against another nation.
• Aggressive — Manifesting a hostile, violent, or attack-prone behavior; quarrelsome, combative, offensive, or provocative. Broadly, the term describes an intrusive attitude, an extremely dynamic and persistent business strategy, or the rapid and destructive evolution of a medical condition or a corrosive chemical substance.
• Aggressiveness — A character trait, psychological state, or native/acquired destructive tendency, manifested by the inclination to attack, use violence, or impose dominance over others. In ethology, it represents an instinctive biological survival mechanism used by animals to defend territory, obtain food, or establish group hierarchy.
• Aggressor (female) — A female person, state, army, or entity that commits an aggression, a violent, unprovoked, and illegal attack upon an individual or a sovereign nation. As an adjective, it qualifies a military force, attitude, or female conduct deeply offensive, hostile, and prone to using force.
• Aggressology — An emerging interdisciplinary branch of criminology and psychopathology dedicated to the systematic, scientific, and experimental study of the causes, biological, psychological, and social mechanisms driving violent behaviors, acts of aggression, and the personality profile of the aggressor. Unlike victimology, it focuses heavily on analyzing violence from the perpetrator's perspective.
• Fierce — Extremely harsh, severe, violent, fierce, or merciless; occurring with a particularly high intensity, causing fear, destruction, or deep suffering. As an adverb, it expresses the execution of an action in a vehement, fierce, or agonizing manner.
• Amok — An acute psychopathological state of trance and blind rage, characterized by the sudden manifestation of an uncontrolled, destructive, and indiscriminate murderous behavior towards people around, usually followed by complete amnesia and extreme physical exhaustion. This culture-bound syndrome was originally described in Southeast Asian regions, but the term is used modernly to describe violent episodes of homicidal blind rage.
• Incitement — The act of inciting or setting animals (especially dogs) to attack, or, by extension, the intentional instigation of a conflict between people through hostile encouragement or manipulation; a structural act of inciting violence or intolerance within a social group.
• Ashoka — A legendary emperor of the Maurya Empire (3rd century BCE) who united almost the entire Indian subcontinent; he is renowned in world history for his profound conversion to Buddhism following the carnage of the Kalinga War, becoming a fervent promoter of non-violence, religious tolerance, and the global spread of Buddhist teachings through his edicts carved on rocks and stone pillars.
• Mahatma Gandhi — An Indian spiritual and political leader, the father of independent India, globally renowned for his revolutionary use of non-violent resistance (satyagraha) and peaceful civil disobedience as fundamental weapons against British colonial rule.