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domestic violence
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domestic violence
n.
Violence toward or physical abuse of one's spouse or domestic partner.
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Noun1.domestic violence - violence or physical abuse directed toward your spouse or domestic partnerdomestic 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"


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Joel Benna than QC for Williams, has argued at the court of appeal that her murder conviction should be replaced with one for manslaughter, and her life sentence overturned, after a psychiatrist's conclusions that she was "suffering and was exhibiting symptoms and behaviours best characterised as battered woman syndrome".
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