Violent

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Causing or intending to cause damage, injury, or death, often when involving great force.
  • adjective. Characterized by or displaying physical violence.
  • adjective. Caused by unexpected force or injury rather than by natural causes.
  • adjective. Given to physical violence.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Very forceful.
  • adjective. Intense or extreme, especially in emotion.
  • adjective. Characterized by extreme emotion, especially anger.
  • adjective. Vivid, as in brightness or saturation.
  • adjective. Tending to distort meaning or intent.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Characterized by strong and sudden physical force; impetuous; furious.
  • Produced, effected, or continued by force; accompanied by extraneous or unnatural force; unnatural.
  • Acting or produced by unlawful, unjust, or improper force; characterized by force or violence unlawfully exercised; rough; outrageous; not authorized.
  • Vehement mentally, or springing from such vehemence; fierce; passionate; furious.
  • In general, intense in any respect; extreme: as, a violent contrast; especially, of pain, acute.
  • Compelled; compulsory; not voluntary.
  • Poignant, exquisite.
  • noun. One acting with violence.
  • To urge with violence.
  • To act or work with violence; be violent.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An assailant.
  • transitive verb. To urge with violence.
  • adjective. Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe
  • adjective. Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized.
  • adjective. Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal.
  • adjective. presumption of a fact that arises from proof of circumstances which necessarily attend such facts.
  • adjective. rents or profits of an estate obtained by a tenant wrongfully holding over after warning. They are recoverable in a process of removing.
  • intransitive verb. To be violent; to act violently.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Involving extreme force or motion.
  • adjective. Involving physical conflict.
  • adjective. Likely to use physical force.
  • adjective. Intensely vivid.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity
  • adjective. (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud
  • adjective. marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid
  • adjective. characterized by violence or bloodshed
  • adjective. effected by force or injury rather than natural causes
  • Word Usage
    "I think the speaker used the term violent, did violence to what you're trying to accomplish in the House."
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    gentle  peaceful  
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    angry  quick  severe  sudden  vicious  
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