Violent1. (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.
2. (a.) Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech.
3. (a.) Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal.
4. (n.) An assailant.
5. (v. t.) To urge with violence.
6. (v. i.) To be violent; to act violently.
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