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  1. adjective Marked by, acting with, or resulting from great force: a violent attack.
  2. adjective Having or showing great emotional force: violent dislike.
  3. adjective Marked by intensity; extreme: violent pain; a violent squall. See Synonyms at intense.
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  • The truth is, that every death is violent which is the effect of accident; every death, which is not gradually brought on by the miseries of age, or when life is extinguished for any other reason than that it is burnt out. —  Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1
  • She was accused of being violent, and of wishing to revenge herself by setting fire to Paris. —  A Book of Remarkable Criminals
  • Too grossly violent, and utterly unnecessary; all she need do was open the lock's outer door and methane-ammonia atmosphere would smother her nicely. —  Asimov'sSF,Feb2004
  • Although our galaxy contains supernovas--violent explosions of dying stars--"they're simply not energetic enough to do the job," Loh adds. —  Omni: February 1995
  • Nature and art indeed had combined to make it easy Younger brother of an excitable, violent, and robust Prince, Philip V, had been bred up in a submission and dependence that were necessary for the repose of the Royal family. —  The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, V4
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin violentus, from vīs, vi-, force; see weiə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English violent, vyolent, from Old French violent, French violent = Spanish Portuguese Italian violento, from Latin violentus, vehement, forcible, from vis, strength, power, force: see vim.
 

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