Definition of Violent

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Violent

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.

Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech.

Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal.

An assailant.

To urge with violence.

To be violent; to act violently.

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Violent Quotations

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
Ronald Reagan

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mohandas Gandhi

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Mohandas Gandhi

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mohandas Gandhi

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
Ogden Nash

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
T. S. Eliot

Violent Translations

violent in German is heftig, gewaltsam
violent in Italian is violento, veemente
violent in Latin is vehemens
violent in Spanish is desaforado, abrupto

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