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.