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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] Float upon a wild and violent sea. --Shak. [1913 Webster] A violent cross wind from either coast. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech. [1913 Webster] To bring forth more violent deeds. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey's life. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal. [1913 Webster] These violent delights have violent ends. --Shak. [1913 Webster] No violent state can be perpetual. --T. Burnet. [1913 Webster] Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. --Milton. [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster] Syn: Fierce; vehement; outrageous; boisterous; turbulent; impetuous; passionate; severe; extreme. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Violent \Vi"o*lent\, n. An assailant. [Obs.] --Dr. H. More. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Violent \Vi"o*lent\, v. t. [Cf. F. violenter.] To urge with violence. [Obs.] --Fuller. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Violent \Vi"o*lent\, v. i. To be violent; to act violently. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste, And violenteth in a sense as strong As that which causeth it. --Shak. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: 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}]