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violent (mass) | violent
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violent (encz) | violent,náhlý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
violent (encz) | violent,násilnický adj: Zdeněk Brož |
violent (encz) | violent,násilný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
violent (encz) | violent,prudký adj: Pavel Machek; Giza |
Violent (gcide) | Violent \Vi"o*lent\, a. [F., from L. violentus, from vis
strength, force; probably akin to Gr. ? a muscle, strength.]
1. 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.
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Float upon a wild and violent sea. --Shak.
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A violent cross wind from either coast. --Milton.
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2. 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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To bring forth more violent deeds. --Milton.
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Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey's life.
--Shak.
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3. Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural;
abnormal.
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These violent delights have violent ends. --Shak.
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No violent state can be perpetual. --T. Burnet.
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Ease would recant
Vows made in pain, as violent and void. --Milton.
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Violent presumption (Law), presumption of a fact that
arises from proof of circumstances which necessarily
attend such facts.
Violent profits (Scots Law), rents or profits of an estate
obtained by a tenant wrongfully holding over after
warning. They are recoverable in a process of removing.
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Syn: Fierce; vehement; outrageous; boisterous; turbulent;
impetuous; passionate; severe; extreme.
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Violent (gcide) | Violent \Vi"o*lent\, n.
An assailant. [Obs.] --Dr. H. More.
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Violent (gcide) | Violent \Vi"o*lent\, v. t. [Cf. F. violenter.]
To urge with violence. [Obs.] --Fuller.
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Violent (gcide) | Violent \Vi"o*lent\, v. i.
To be violent; to act violently. [Obs.]
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The grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste,
And violenteth in a sense as strong
As that which causeth it. --Shak.
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violent (wn) | violent
adj 1: acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or
energy or emotional intensity; "a violent attack"; "a
violent person"; "violent feelings"; "a violent rage";
"felt a violent dislike" [ant: nonviolent]
2: effected by force or injury rather than natural causes; "a
violent death"
3: (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud; "a violent
clash of colors"; "her dress was a violent red"; "a violent
noise"; "wild colors"; "wild shouts" [syn: violent, wild]
4: marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions;
inclined to react violently; fervid; "fierce loyalty"; "in a
tearing rage"; "vehement dislike"; "violent passions" [syn:
fierce, tearing, vehement, violent, trigger-happy]
5: characterized by violence or bloodshed; "writes of crimson
deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke; "fann'd by Conquest's
crimson wing"- Thomas Gray; "convulsed with red rage"- Hudson
Strode [syn: crimson, red, violent] |
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non-violent (encz) | non-violent,nenásilný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
nonviolent (encz) | nonviolent,nenásilný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
nonviolent resistance (encz) | nonviolent resistance, n: |
nonviolently (encz) | nonviolently, adv: |
violent death (encz) | violent death, n: |
violent disorder (encz) | violent disorder, n: |
violent storm (encz) | violent storm, n: |
violent stream (encz) | violent stream, n: |
violently (encz) | violently,násilně adv: Zdeněk Brož |
nonviolent (gcide) | nonviolent \nonviolent\ adj.
1. peacefully resistant in response to injustice; not using
violence; -- used of protests and demonstrations; as,
nonviolent resistance. Opposite of violent.
Syn: passive, peaceful.
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2. achieved without bloodshed. Contrasted with bloody.
Syn: unbloody, bloodless.
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