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Behaviors used to assert such domination can include verbal harassment or threat, physical assault or coercion, and such acts may be directed repeatedly towards particular targets

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If bullying is done by a group, it is called mobbing

"Targets" of bullying are also sometimes referred to as "victims" of bullying. Bullying can be defined in many different ways

Bullying consists of four basic types of abuse – emotional (sometimes called relational), verbal, physical, and cyber

Bullying ranges from simple one-on-one bullying to more complex bullying in which the bully may have one or more "lieutenants" who may seem to be willing to assist the primary bully in his or her bullying activities

Bullying may be defined as the activity of repeated, aggressive behavior intended to hurt another person, physically or mentally

. Bullying is characterized by an individual behaving in a certain way to gain power over another person

bullying has been more closely linked to high school violence in general

Some have argued that bullying can teach life lessons and instill strength

Bullying in school sometimes consists of a group of students taking advantage of or isolating one student in particular and gaining the loyalty of bystanders who want to avoid becoming the next target

hese bullies may taunt and tease their target before physically bullying the target

There is an inherent power differential in the system that can easily predispose to subtle or covert abuse (relational aggression or passive aggression), humiliation, or exclusion — even while maintaining overt commitments to anti-bullying policies