Added to
Favorites
Sign Up
Log In
Introducing a cool
new way to learn!
Dictionary
Thesaurus
Word Dynamo
Quotes
Reference
Translator
Spanish
Related Searches
Violent crimes
Violent video gam...
Violent cartoons
Violent j
Violent movies
Violent femmes
Violent images
Tv violence
Shaggy 2 dope
Violent video cli...
Violence
School violence
Nearby Words
viola!
viola'bility
viola-clef
viola-d'amore
viola-damore
violability
violably
violaceae
violaceous
violaniline
violantin
violaquercitrin
violascent
violate
violation
violational
violative
violator
viole
violence
violent
violent death
violent disorde...
violent storm
violent stream
violent-storm
violescent
violet
violet family
violet irides
violet iris
violet suksdorf...
violet wood
violet wood sor...
violet-black
violet-blue
violet-colored
violet-coloured
violet-ear
violet-family
violet-flowered
violent
Example Sentences
Main Entry:
vi·o·lent
[
vahy
-
uh
-l
uh
nt
]
/
ˈvaɪ
ə
lənt
/
Show Spelled
Part of Speech:
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source
|
Link To
violent
Main Entry:
violent
Part of Speech:
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Cite This Source
Example Sentences
Springtime brings the possibility of extreme weather, including
violent
thunder-storms and tornadoes.
Severe mental illness alone is not generally enough to cause
violent
behavior.
Sneeze: to make a sudden
violent
spasmodic audible expiration of breath through the nose and mouth, especially as a reflex act.
EXPAND
Springtime brings the possibility of extreme weather, including
violent
thunder-storms and tornadoes.
Severe mental illness alone is not generally enough to cause
violent
behavior.
Sneeze: to make a sudden
violent
spasmodic audible expiration of breath through the nose and mouth, especially as a reflex act.
The early days of planetary solar systems can be
violent
times indeed.
In the past decade, two ways of tackling
violent
crime have dominated police thinking.
To be sure, there has been a sharp rise in
violent
crime, with well-armed drug-traffickers on the scene.
More
violent
and frequent storms, once merely a prediction of climate models, are now a matter of observation.
The mood was described as somber in places, and bordering on
violent
in others.
The slow but
violent
collision of these three plates produces spectacular earthquakes, tsunamis, and eruptions.
Dill recently co-authored a study linking
violent
games to aggressive behavior.
COLLAPSE
Search
another word
or see
violent
on
Dictionary
|
Spanish
Is VIOLENT messing up your project?
Writing Dynamo
instantly improves word choice, redundancy and grammar.
Use Thesaurus.com faster without ads >>
Style guide
Confusing words
Word of the Day
Free tools
Blog
Games
Partners:
Word
Bloglines
Citysearch
The Daily Beast
Ask Answers
Ask Kids
Life123
Reference
Sendori
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright ©
2012
. All rights reserved.
About
Privacy Policy
Terms of Use
API
Careers
Advertise with Us
Contact Us
Help
Please
Login
or
Sign Up
to use the Favorites feature
Please
Login
or
Sign Up
to use the Recent Searches feature
FAVORITES
RECENT