violently
Americanadverb
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in a way that involves uncontrolled or destructive force.
He struck the table violently with his clenched fist and shouted for more.
Dramatic video shows soldiers violently removing voters from polling stations.
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in an intense or extreme way.
He was violently ill after ten minutes, but soon recovered fully.
We were awoken early in the morning when the house began shaking violently.
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She added elsewhere in her declaration: “I have never witnessed her act violently toward anyone.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
The English flee, the French strip the corpses in the lower border, and the ragged-edged Tapestry ends as suddenly and violently as Anglo-Saxon England.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Some of the stellar material falls toward the black hole, while much of it can be violently expelled into space through powerful outflows.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
This is when air moves violently at high altitudes with no clouds or other visual cues to help a pilot avoid it.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
It was moving violently, thrashing against the sides of the jar and forever changing shape.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
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