Adjective

(en-adj)

Involving extreme force or motion.

A violent wind ripped the branch from the tree.

Involving physical conflict.

We would rather negotiate, but we will use violent means if needed.

Likely to use physical force.

The escaped prisoners are considered extremely violent .

Intensely vivid.

The artist expressed his emotional theme through violent colors.

(obsolete) Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural.

* Shakespeare

These violent delights have violent ends.

* T. Burnet

No violent state can be perpetual.

* Milton

Ease would recant / Vows made in pain, as violent and void.

Adjective

(en adjective)

(chiefly, medicine, of a disease or disease-causing agent) Highly infectious, malignant or deadly.

Hostile to the point of being venomous; intensely acrimonious.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=8 citation , passage=It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent , and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.}}