Thesaurus: violent

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1. a. 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.
2. a. Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech.
3. a. Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal.
4. n. An assailant.
5. v. t. To urge with violence.
6. v. i. To be violent; to act violently.
7. adj. acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity
8. adj. effected by force or injury rather than natural causes
9. adj. (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud
10. adj. marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid
11. adj. characterized by violence or bloodshed