Usually means: Abuse within a household setting.
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  1. domestic violence: Merriam-Webster
  2. domestic violence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. domestic violence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. domestic violence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. domestic violence: Vocabulary.com
  6. domestic-violence: Wordnik
  7. domestic violence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. domestic violence: Wiktionary
  9. domestic violence: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. domestic violence: Dictionary.com
  11. Domestic Violence (film), Domestic Violence, Domestic violence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  13. domestic violence: FreeDictionary.org
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  1. domestic violence: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. domestic violence: Law.com Dictionary
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  5. Domestic Violence: Legal dictionary

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  2. Domestic violence: Merck Manuals
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  5. domestic violence: Medical dictionary

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  1. domestic violence: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (domestic violence)

▸ noun:  Violence between members of a household, such as spouses.

Similar:
domestic, domestic dispute, violency, wifebeating, home invasion, counterviolence, wife-beating, sexual violence, violence, domicide, more...

Opposite:
peaceful, nonviolent, harmonious, respectful

Phrases:
Domestic violence against men, national domestic violence hotline, Domestic violence in lesbian relationships, Domestic violence in same-sex relationships, Islam and domestic violence, more...

Adjectives:
assailant, assaultive, violated, polemic, attacking, offensive, ad hominem, dead set, malign, besetting, slanderous

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Similar:
domestic, domestic dispute, violency, wifebeating, home invasion, counterviolence, wife-beating, sexual violence, violence, domicide, more...

Opposite:
peaceful, nonviolent, harmonious, respectful

Phrases:
Domestic violence against men, national domestic violence hotline, Domestic violence in lesbian relationships, Domestic violence in same-sex relationships, Islam and domestic violence, more...

Adjectives:
assailant, assaultive, violated, polemic, attacking, offensive, ad hominem, dead set, malign, besetting, slanderous



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