Vi·o·lent a.
 1. 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.
    Float upon a wild and violent sea.   --Shak.
    A violent cross wind from either coast.   --Milton.
 2. Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech.
    To bring forth more violent deeds.   --Milton.
    Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey's life.   --Shak.
 3. Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal.
    These violent delights have violent ends.   --Shak.
    No violent state can be perpetual.   --T. Burnet.
 Ease would recant
 Vows made in pain, as violent and void.   --Milton.
 Violent presumption Law, presumption of a fact that arises from proof of circumstances which necessarily attend such facts.
 Violent profits Scots Law, rents or profits of an estate obtained by a tenant wrongfully holding over after warning. They are recoverable in a process of removing.
 Syn: -- Fierce; vehement; outrageous; boisterous; turbulent; impetuous; passionate; severe; extreme.