Is there a difference between “verbal abuse” and “verbal violence”?
“Verbal violence” is a slightly broader term. For example, most adult verbal abusers are too sophisticated and too skilled to use shouted insults and obscenities as attacks; those items are ordinarily part of physical attacks. But I would include them in “verbal violence” because children and teenagers tend to use them and because there are adults who are exceptions to the rule. Most of the time, however, the two terms are essentially interchangeable.
