domestic violence

1. acts of violence or abuse against a person living in one's household, especially a member of one's immediate family.

Example Sentences

And Cho remembered a high school girl who lived alone in a gosiwon -- a cramped room typically less than five square metres -- after she escaped domestic violence.

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Mr. Johnson says the tax is meant to finance public safety so those opposing it must not want to “help domestic violence survivors, youth employment and the mental health of our police officers.”

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Influencer DDG, known for the 2016 single “Balenciaga,” fired back with allegations against Bailey and a request for his own domestic violence restraining order.

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Nunez was among the deputies who responded to a domestic violence call at 12:37 p.m. at a condominium on Hollyhock Drive in Rancho Cucamonga, where a man with gun was reportedly threatening a woman.

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After listening to the recording, the man submitted a seven-hour excerpt in which officers referred to a suspected victim of domestic violence as "mental", possibly suffering from "post-natal depression" and requiring "hospitalisation".

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