Definition of violent

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Violent (a.) Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech..

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Concussation :: Concussation (n.) A violent shock or agitation.
Rampage :: Rampage (v.) Violent or riotous behavior; a state of excitement, passion, or debauchery; as, to be on the rampage..
Strife :: Strife (n.) Altercation; violent contention; fight; battle.
Impulse :: Impulse (n.) A mental force which simply and directly urges to action; hasty inclination; sudden motive; momentary or transient influence of appetite or passion; propension; incitement; as, a man of good impulses; passion often gives a violent impulse to the will..
To :: To (prep.) Effect; end; consequence; as, the prince was flattered to his ruin; he engaged in a war to his cost; violent factions exist to the prejudice of the state..
Gush :: Gush (v. t.) A sudden and violent issue of a fluid from an inclosed plase; an emission of a liquid in a large quantity, and with force; the fluid thus emitted; a rapid outpouring of anything; as, a gush of song from a bird..
Rate :: Rate (v. t. & i.) To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently.
Sweep :: Sweep (n.) Violent and general destruction; as, the sweep of an epidemic disease..
Tempest :: Tempest (n.) Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions..
Convulse :: Convulse (v. t.) To contract violently and irregulary, as the muscular parts of an animal body; to shake with irregular spasms, as in excessive laughter, or in agony from grief or pain..
Nerve-shaken :: Nerve-shaken (a.) Affected by a tremor, or by a nervous disease; weakened; overcome by some violent influence or sensation; shoked..
Slap :: Slap (n.) With a sudden and violent blow; hence, quickly; instantly; directly..
Eruption :: Eruption (n.) A violent exclamation; ejaculation.
Shock :: Shock (n.) A quivering or shaking which is the effect of a blow, collision, or violent impulse; a blow, impact, or collision; a concussion; a sudden violent impulse or onset..
Churly :: Churly (a.) Rude; churlish; violent.
Struggle :: Struggle (n.) A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.
Syncretistic :: Syncretist (n.) an adherent of George Calixtus and other Germans of the seventeenth century, who sought to unite or reconcile the Protestant sects with each other and with the Roman Catholics, and thus occasioned a long and violent controversy in the Lutheran church..
Shock :: Shock (v. i.) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
Hotspurred :: Hotspurred (a.) Violent; impetuous; headstrong.
Strained :: Strainably (adv.) Violently.
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