Violent /(?)/
Vi·o·lent
Violent
a.
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Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease.
Float upon a wild and violent sea.
A violent cross wind from either coast.
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Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech.
To bring forth more violent deeds.
Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey's life.
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Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal.
These violent delights have violent ends.
No violent state can be perpetual.
Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
Phrases & Compounds
- Violent presumption
- presumption of a fact that arises from proof of circumstances which necessarily attend such facts.
- Violent profits
- rents or profits of an estate obtained by a tenant wrongfully holding over after warning. They are recoverable in a process of removing.
Violent
n.
- An assailant. [Obs.]
Violent
v. t.
- To urge with violence. [Obs.]
Violent
v. i.
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To be violent; to act violently. [Obs.]
The grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste, And violenteth in a sense as strong As that which causeth it.