Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun domestic_violence

1 sense of domestic violence

Sense 1
domestic violence -- (violence or physical abuse directed toward your spouse or domestic partner; usually violence by men against women)
       => violence, force -- (an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists); "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one")