PUBLIC VIOLENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does public violence mean? 

• PUBLIC VIOLENCE (noun)
  The noun PUBLIC VIOLENCE has 1 sense:

1. a public act of violence by an unruly mob

  Familiarity information: PUBLIC VIOLENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUBLIC VIOLENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A public act of violence by an unruly mob

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

public violence; riot

Hypernyms ("public violence" is a kind of...):

force; violence (an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "public violence"):

race riot (a riot caused by hatred for one another of members of different races in the same community)