About The Word Violent
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Violent
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What's The Definition Of Violent?
[adj] 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
[adj] marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid; "fierce loyalty"; "in a tearing rage"; "vehement dislike"; "violent passions" [adj] (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" [adj] effected by force or injury rather than natural causes; "a violent death" [adj] 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Violent: bloody | convulsive | crimson | ferocious | fierce | furious | hot | intense | knock-down-and-drag-out | knockdown-dragout | lashing | lurid | raging | rampageous | red | ruffianly | savage | tearing | terrorist | tough | trigger-happy | unnatural | vehement | wild Related Terms | Find terms related to Violent: See Also | hostile | unpeaceful Violent In Webster's Dictionary \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.
Float upon a wild and violent sea. --Shak.
A violent cross wind from either coast. --Milton.
2. 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. --Milton.
Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey's life.
--Shak.
3. Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural;
abnormal.
These violent delights have violent ends. --Shak.
No violent state can be perpetual. --T. Burnet.
Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and
void. --Milton.
{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.
Syn: Fierce; vehement; outrageous; boisterous; turbulent;
impetuous; passionate; severe; extreme.
\Vi"o*lent\, n. An assailant. [Obs.] --Dr. H. More. \Vi"o*lent\, v. t. [Cf. F. violenter.] To urge with violence. [Obs.] --Fuller. \Vi"o*lent\, v. i. 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. --Shak. |
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