domestic violence (redirected from Husband abuse)

domestic violence

n.

Violence toward or physical abuse of one's spouse or domestic partner.

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Noun

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domestic 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"