1 with great energy or strong movement, especially caused by a strong emotion such as fear or hatred:
She shook her head violently. * to shiver / tremble / shudder violently
2 very strongly or severely:
He was violently sick. * They are violently opposed to the idea.
3 in a way that involves physical violence:
The crowd reacted violently.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for violently is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is violently a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, violently is tagged as adverb.
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