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Physical abuse is abuse involving contact intended to cause feelings of intimidation, pain
Pain

Pain, in the sense of physical pain, is a typical sensory experience that may be described as the unpleasant awareness of a noxious stimulus or bodily harm....
, injury
Injury

Injury or bodily injury is damage or harm caused to the structure or Purpose of the body caused by an outside wiktionary:agent or force, which may be physical or chemical....
, or other physical suffering
Suffering

Suffering, or pain, is an individual's basic affective experience of unpleasantness and aversion associated with harm or threat of harm. Suffering may be qualified as physical, or mental....
 or harm
HARM

HARM may refer to :* AGM-88 HARM, a missile* Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum, a museum located in Creve Coeur, Missouri, United StatesH.A.R.M. may stand for :...
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Basic forms include:












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Physical abuse is abuse involving contact intended to cause feelings of intimidation, pain
Pain

Pain, in the sense of physical pain, is a typical sensory experience that may be described as the unpleasant awareness of a noxious stimulus or bodily harm....
, injury
Injury

Injury or bodily injury is damage or harm caused to the structure or Purpose of the body caused by an outside wiktionary:agent or force, which may be physical or chemical....
, or other physical suffering
Suffering

Suffering, or pain, is an individual's basic affective experience of unpleasantness and aversion associated with harm or threat of harm. Suffering may be qualified as physical, or mental....
 or harm
HARM

HARM may refer to :* AGM-88 HARM, a missile* Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum, a museum located in Creve Coeur, Missouri, United StatesH.A.R.M. may stand for :...
.

Basic forms include:

  • striking
    Strike (attack)

    A strike is an attack with an inanimate object, such as a weapon, or with a part of the human body intended to cause an effect upon an opponent or to simply cause harm to an opponent....
  • punching
    Punch (strike)

    A punch is "a thrusting blow, esp. with the fist." In some sports and disciplines, such as boxing or martial arts, where punches are regularly practiced, hand wraps or other padding such as gloves may be employed to protect athletes and practitioners from injuring themselves....
  • pushing, pulling
  • slapping
    Slap

    A slap or "smack" is a broad stroke made with the open hand, as opposed to a punch that is made with a closed fist. Slaps are frequently made across the face, but can be also made across hands or any other body part, and can use either the palm of the hand or the back of the hand....
  • Whipping
  • striking with an object
  • locking in or out of a room or place/false imprisonment


  • excessive pinching
  • kick
    Kick

    In martial arts, combat sports or violence, a kick is a strike using the foot, Human leg, or knee . This attack is often used in hand-to-hand combat, especially in stand-up fighting....
    ing
  • having someone fall
  • kneeing
  • strangling
    Strangling

    Strangling is compression of the neck that leads to unconsciousness or death by causing an increasingly hypoxia state in the brain. Fatal strangling typically occurs in cases of violence, accidents, and as the mechanism of suicide in hangings....
  • head butting
  • drowning
    Drowning

    Drowning is death from suffocation caused by a liquid entering the lungs and preventing the absorption of oxygen leading to cerebral Hypoxia and cardiac arrest....
  • sleep deprivation
    Sleep deprivation

    Sleep deprivation is a general lack of the necessary amount of sleep. This may occur as a result of sleep disorders, active choice or deliberate inducement such as in interrogation or for torture....
  • exposure to cold, freezing
    Freezing

    In physical science, freezing or solidification is the process in which a liquid turns into a solid when cold enough. The Melting point is the temperature at which this happens....
  • exposure to heat or radiation
    Radiation

    In physics, radiation describes any process in which energy emitted by one body travels through a medium or through space, ultimately to be absorbed by another body....
    , burning
    Burn (injury)

    A burn is a type of injury that may be caused by heat, Temperature, electricity, chemicals, light, radiation, or friction. Burns can be highly variable in terms of the tissue affected, the severity, and resultant complications....
  • exposure to electric shock
    Electric shock

    An electric shock can occur upon contact of a human's body with any source of voltage high enough to cause sufficient Electric current through the muscles or hair....
  • placing in "stress positions" (tied or otherwise forced)
  • cutting
    Cutting

    Cutting is the separation of a physical object, or a portion of a physical object, into two portions, through the application of an acutely directed force....
     or otherwise exposing somebody to something sharp
  • exposure to a dangerous animal
  • throwing or shooting a projectile
    Projectile

    A projectile is any object propelled through space by the exertion of a force, which ceases after launch. In a general sense, even a Football or baseball may be considered a projectile....
  • exposure to a toxic substance
  • infecting
    Infection

    An infection is the detrimental colonization of a host organism by a foreign species. In an infection, the infecting organism seeks to utilize the host resources to multiply ....
     with a disease
    Disease

    A disease or medical condition is an abnormal condition of an organism that impairs bodily functions, associated with specific symptoms and Medical signs....
  • withholding food or medication
  • spanking
    Spanking

    Spanking is a form of corporal punishment that generally consists of striking the buttocks. The recipient is most often a child or teenager. In some parts of the world, and at some times in history, women were also typical recipients, but this is no longer common in most of the world....
     is subject to controversy as to whether it qualifies as physical abuse.
  • assault
    Assault

    Assault is a crime of violence against another human. In some jurisdictions, including Australia and New Zealand, assault refers to an act that causes another to apprehend immediate and personal violence, while in other jurisdictions, such as the United States, assault may refer only to the threat of violence caused by an immediate show of fo...
  • bodily harm
    Bodily harm

    Bodily harm is a legal term of art used in the definition of both statutory and common law offences in England and Wales and other common law jurisdictions....
  • humiliation
    Humiliation

    Humiliation is the abasement of pride, which creates mortification or leads to a state of being Humility or reduced to lowliness or submission....
  • torture
    Torture

    Torture, according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, is:In addition to state-sponsored torture, individuals or groups may be motivated to inflict torture on others for similar reasons to those of a state; however, the motive for torture can also be for the sadism gratification of the torturer, as was the case in the Moors M...
  • Blinding a person/causing vision impairments e.g. throwing acid into eyes/face, having eyes gouged out.
  • negligence
    Negligence

    Negligence is a Law concept in the common law legal systems usually used to achieve compensation for injuries . Negligence is a type of tort or delict ....
  • Biting


See also

  • Assault
    Assault

    Assault is a crime of violence against another human. In some jurisdictions, including Australia and New Zealand, assault refers to an act that causes another to apprehend immediate and personal violence, while in other jurisdictions, such as the United States, assault may refer only to the threat of violence caused by an immediate show of fo...