violentadj/ˈvaɪ.ə.lənt/

• 1

  Involving extreme force or motion.

  • A violent wind ripped the branch from the tree.
• 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

  Likely to use physical force.

  • The escaped prisoners are considered extremely violent.
• 4

  Intensely vivid.

  • The artist expressed his emotional theme through violent colors.
  • his violent objections to the plan
• 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,
• 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.

violentverb/ˈvaɪ.ə.lənt/

• 1

  archaicTo urge with violence.

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

violentnoun/ˈvaɪ.ə.lənt/

• 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.