violent

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. Source: opted

2. a. Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech. Source: opted

3. a. Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal. Source: opted

4. n. An assailant. Source: opted

5. v. t. To urge with violence. Source: opted

6. v. i. To be violent; to act violently. Source: opted

7. adj. acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity Source: wordnet

8. adj. effected by force or injury rather than natural causes Source: wordnet

9. adj. (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud Source: wordnet

10. adj. marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid Source: wordnet

11. adj. characterized by violence or bloodshed Source: wordnet

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