Definition of violent

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Violent (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..

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Urge :: Urge (v. t.) To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with; as, to urge an ore with intense heat..
Rousing :: Rousing (a.) Very great; violent; astounding; as, a rousing fire; a rousing lie..
Possession :: Possession (n.) The state of being possessed or controlled, as by an evil spirit, or violent passions; madness; frenzy; as, demoniacal possession..
Madcap :: Madcap (n.) A person of wild behavior; an excitable, rash, violent person..
Rush :: Rush (n.) A moving forward with rapidity and force or eagerness; a violent motion or course; as, a rush of troops; a rush of winds; a rush of water..
Dragoon :: Dragoon (v. t.) To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute.
Wrest :: Wrest (n.) The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion..
Thresh :: Thresh (v. t.) Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently..
Direptitiously :: Direptitiously (adv.) With plundering violence; by violent injustice.
Heavy :: Heavy (superl.) Strong; violent; forcible; as, a heavy sea, storm, cannonade, and the like..
Thrust :: Thrust (n.) A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon moved in the direction of its length, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a stab; -- a word much used as a term of fencing..
Ranch :: Ranch (v. t.) To wrench; to tear; to sprain; to injure by violent straining or contortion.
Eructation :: Eructation (n.) A violent belching out or emitting, as of gaseous or other matter from the crater of a volcano, geyser, etc..
Pant :: Pant (n.) A violent palpitation of the heart.
Collision :: Collision (n.) The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing..
Rank :: Rank (superl.) Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter; as, rank heresy..
Treatable :: Treatable (a.) Manageable; tractable; hence, moderate; not violent..
Impotent :: Impotent (a.) Wanting the power of self-restraint; incontrolled; ungovernable; violent.
Blast :: Blast (n.) A violent gust of wind.
Storm-beat :: Storm (v. i.) To rage; to be in a violent passion; to fume.
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