violent

adjective

1. 1

   Involving extreme force or motion.

   A violent wind ripped the branch from the tree.

2. 2

   Involving physical conflict.

   We would rather negotiate, but we will use violent means if necessary.

   Looking at hundreds of campaigns over the last century, Chenoweth found that nonviolent campaigns are twice as likely to achieve their goals as violent campaigns.

3. 3

   Likely to use physical force.

   The escaped prisoners are considered extremely violent.

4. 4

   Intensely vivid.

   The artist expressed his emotional theme through violent colors.

   his violent objections to the plan

   We have already observed, that he was a very good-natured fellow, and he hath himself declared the violent attachment he had to the person and character of Jones […]

5. 5

   Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural.

   These violent delights have violent ends.

   1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth and no violent state by his own Maxim, can be perpetual,

   Ease would recant / Vows made in pain, as violent and void.

6. 6

   Acute, extreme, sharp.

   a violent headache

   Palace made it 3-1 on 81 minutes, Nketiah nipping in to finish nicely, then doing a no-celebration pose in front of the away fans. Nketiah grew up a couple of miles from the Den. It felt, at the very least, like a neighbourly overture, and in violent contrast to the opening act at the other end.

verb

1. 1

   archaicTo urge with violence.

   a great adversary , stepping in , so violented his Majesty to a trial

noun

1. 1

   obsoleteAn assailant.

   Did the Covetous extortioner observe that he is involv'd in the same sentence, [and] remember that such Violents shall take not heaven, but hell, by force.

Forms

plural

violents

comparative

violenter, more violent

superlative

violentest, most violent

past tense

violented

past participle

violented

present participle

violenting

third person singular

violents