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

1 sense of public violence

Sense 1
riot, public violence -- (a public act of violence by an unruly mob)
       => 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")