violent
/ˈvaɪ.ə.lənt/ adjective A2- Involving extreme force or motion. · A violent wind ripped the branch from the tree.
- Involving physical conflict. · We would rather negotiate, but we will use violent means if necessary.
- Likely to use physical force. · The escaped prisoners are considered extremely violent.
- Intensely vivid. · The artist expressed his emotional theme through violent colors.· his violent objections to the plan
- Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural.
- Acute, extreme, sharp. · a violent headache
Comparative violenter · Superlative violentest
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The guests were still at table, and the heated and energetic conversation that prevailed betrayed the violent and vindictive passions that then agitated each dweller of the South, where unhappily, for five centuries religious strife had long given increased bitterness to the violence of party feeling.
If you wish to see me the king’s attorney, you must desire for me some of those violent and dangerous diseases from the cure of which so much honor redounds to the physician.”
WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf’s right to eat him.
As this afforded only protection for one, and as the Traveler and the owner of the Ass both claimed it, a violent dispute arose between them as to which of them had the right to the Shadow.
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