Violent /(?)/

Vi·o·lent

Violent

a.
  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.
    Float upon a wild and violent sea.
    A violent cross wind from either coast.
  2. Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech.
    To bring forth more violent deeds.
    Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey's life.
  3. Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal.
    These violent delights have violent ends.
    No violent state can be perpetual.
    — T. Burnet.
    Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.

Phrases & Compounds
Violent presumption
presumption of a fact that arises from proof of circumstances which necessarily attend such facts.
Violent profits
rents or profits of an estate obtained by a tenant wrongfully holding over after warning. They are recoverable in a process of removing.

Violent

n.
  1. An assailant. [Obs.]

Violent

v. t.
  1. To urge with violence. [Obs.]

Violent

v. i.
  1. To be violent; to act violently. [Obs.]
    The grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste, And violenteth in a sense as strong As that which causeth it.