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violencing

violencing is the present participle and gerund of violence.

Meaning of violence

Verb

violence (third-person singular simple present violences, present participle violencing, simple past and past participle violenced)

  1. (nonstandard) To subject to violence.
    • The key general point is that the idea of the agendered, asexual, aviolenced worker is a fiction; workers and organizational members do not exist in social abstraction; they are gendered, sexualed and violenced, partly by their position ...1996, Professor Cathy Nutbrown, Respectful Educators - Capable Learners: Children's Rights and Early Education, SAGE, →ISBN, page 36

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Questions about violencing

What is violencing the present participle and gerund of?
Violencing is the present participle and gerund of violence.

Words near violencing in the dictionary

  1. violence
  2. violence-ridden
  3. violenced
  4. violences
  5. violencies
  6. violencing
  7. violency
  8. violent
  9. violent presumption
  10. violent presumptions
  11. violent profits

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