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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
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: violent, 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, violent, 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, violent]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
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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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Violent \Vi"o*lent\, n.
An assailant. [Obs.] --Dr. H. More.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Violent \Vi"o*lent\, v. t. [Cf. F. violenter.]
To urge with violence. [Obs.] --Fuller.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
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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Thesaurus Results for violent:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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