Found 3 items, similar to Violent.
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Definition: violent
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: violent
violent
adj 1: acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or
energy or emotional intensity;
“a violent attack”;
“a
violent person”;
“violent feelings”;
“a violent rage”;
“felt a violent dislike” [ant:
nonviolent]
2: effected by force or injury rather than natural causes;
“a
violent death”
3: (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud;
“a violent
clash of colors”;
“her dress was a violent red”;
“a
violent noise”;
“wild colors”;
“wild shouts” [syn:
wild]
4: marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions;
inclined to react violently; fervid;
“fierce loyalty”;
“in
a tearing rage”;
“vehement dislike”;
“violent passions”
[syn:
fierce,
tearing,
vehement,
trigger-happy]
5: characterized by violence or bloodshed;
“writes of crimson
deeds and barbaric days”- Andrea Parke;
“fann'd by
Conquest's crimson wing”- Thomas Gray;
“convulsed with red
rage”- Hudson Strode [syn:
crimson,
red]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Violent
Violent
\Vi"o*lent\, n.
An assailant. [Obs.] --Dr. H. More.
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Violent
\Vi"o*lent\, v. t. [Cf. F. violenter.]
To urge with violence. [Obs.] --Fuller.
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Violent
\Vi"o*lent\, v. i.
To be violent; to act violently. [Obs.]
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The grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste,
And violenteth in a sense as strong
As that which causeth it. --Shak.
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Violent
\Vi"o*lent\, a. [F., from L. violentus, from vis
strength, force; probably akin to Gr. ? a muscle, strength.]
1. 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.
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Float upon a wild and violent sea. --Shak.
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A violent cross wind from either coast. --Milton.
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2. Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper
force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on
the right of free speech.
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To bring forth more violent deeds. --Milton.
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Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey's life.
--Shak.
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3. Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural;
abnormal.
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These violent delights have violent ends. --Shak.
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No violent state can be perpetual. --T. Burnet.
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Ease would recant
Vows made in pain, as violent and void. --Milton.
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Violent presumption (Law), presumption of a fact that
arises from proof of circumstances which necessarily
attend such facts.
Violent profits (Scots Law), rents or profits of an estate
obtained by a tenant wrongfully holding over after
warning. They are recoverable in a process of removing.
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Syn: Fierce; vehement; outrageous; boisterous; turbulent;
impetuous; passionate; severe; extreme.
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