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Violent

adjective

Acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity. "A violent person" , "Violent feelings" , "A violent rage" , "Felt a violent dislike"

Effected by force or injury rather than natural causes.

(of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud. Synonym: wild. "Her dress was a violent red" , "A violent noise" , "Wild colors" , "Wild shouts"

Marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid. Synonyms: fierce, tearing, trigger-happy, vehement. "In a tearing rage" , "Vehement dislike" , "Violent passions"

Characterized by violence or bloodshed. Synonyms: crimson, red. "Fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing" , "Convulsed with red rage"

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"Violent" Quotes from Famous Books

... Presently these simmered down to a residue of angry amazement and curiosity. If you have been accustomed all your life to regard yourself as an empress of absolute dominance over slavish masculinity, and are suddenly subjected to a violent slap across the face from the hand of the most highly favored slave, some allowance is due you of outraged sensibilities. Chiefly, however Esme wondered WHY. WHY, in large capitals, and with ...

— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... expressive of violent excitement, whether in respect of rage, or of folly, or of pride; borrowed, perhaps, from the fury of an untamed beast, which cannot be so long held that it may be bound with ...

— The Proverbs of Scotland • Alexander Hislop

... wait to hear what the pastor said, but crushed his felt hat on to his head and started for a violent walk. He would go through Kleinwalde, past the house; he would haunt the woods; he would wait about. It was a hot, gusty May afternoon, and the wind that had been quiet so long was blowing up the dust in clouds; but he hurried along regardless of heat and ...

— The Benefactress • Elizabeth Beauchamp

... words can convey. Still I retained pride, if not courage; and in my own mind I said, "This is horror, but it is not fear; unless I fear I cannot be harmed; my reason rejects this thing, it is an illusion—I do not fear." With a violent effort I succeeded at last in stretching out my hand towards the weapon on the table: as I did so, on the arm and shoulder I received a strange shock, and my arm fell to my side powerless. And now, to add to my horror, the light began slowly to wane ...

— The Best Ghost Stories • Various

... slowly and with an exquisite softness, something in his voice, manner, or words aroused a sudden and violent antipathy in Moretti's mind. He became curiously annoyed, without any possible cause, and out of ...

— The Master-Christian • Marie Corelli

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