Usually means: Causing harm through physical force.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word violent:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. violent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. violent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. violent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. violent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. violent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Violent, violent: Wordnik
  7. violent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. violent: Wiktionary
  9. violent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. violent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. violent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. violent: Dictionary.com
  13. violent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Violent (film), Violent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Violent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. violent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. violent: Rhymezone
  18. Violent, violent(e): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. violent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. violent: Free Dictionary
  21. violent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. violent: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. violent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. violent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. violent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. violent: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. violent: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Involving extreme force or motion.
▸ adjective:  Involving physical conflict.
▸ adjective:  Likely to use physical force.
▸ adjective:  Intensely vivid.
▸ adjective:  Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural.
▸ verb:  (transitive, archaic) To urge with violence.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) An assailant.

Similar:
ferocious, vehement, fierce, furious, intense, tough, lurid, terrorist, raging, wild, more...

Opposite:
peaceful, gentle, calm, serene, placid

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physical, verbal, emotional, sexual, psychological, economic, political, social, more...

Phrases:
Violent crime, violent behavior, violent death, violent storm, violent storms, more...

Adjectives:
non, more, naughty, fairy, deformed, very, external, how

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Similar:
ferocious, vehement, fierce, furious, intense, tough, lurid, terrorist, raging, wild, more...

Opposite:
peaceful, gentle, calm, serene, placid

Types:
physical, verbal, emotional, sexual, psychological, economic, political, social, more...

Phrases:
Violent crime, violent behavior, violent death, violent storm, violent storms, violent felony, Violent disorder, violent relaxation, violent presumption, non violent, violent stream, violent profits, more...

Adjectives:
non, more, naughty, fairy, deformed, very, external, how

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     blood red,     burgundy,     maroon, more...



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