DEFINITION

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