violently
/ˈvʌɪələntli
/adverb
1Using physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something: he flew into a rage and violently assaulted her protesters clashed violently with the police...
- He claimed that it was a part of a larger strategy to expel them violently from areas to be farmed by colonists.
- He drives a taxi because he cannot sleep, but his nightly runs through the city's dirtiest neighbourhoods compel him to act violently.
- There are consequences when he deals with things violently, and he lies frequently because his every misguided placement of trust is betrayed.
2In a very strong or vigorous manner: he coughed violently the aircraft began violently shaking...
- Examples from the artist's "Torn Map" series at first look like scraps of paper violently ripped from a whole.
- The ballet was violently booed at its premiere in 1913.
- She spits violently at her reflection.
2To a very great degree; intensely: I found myself violently disagreeing with him [as submodifier]: he woke up feeling violently ill...
- During this time, his paintings were brightly coloured abstracts executed with violently expressive brushwork.
- The work is violently powerful, its overriding message being the oppression of the Mexican lower classes.
- The border is echoed in the conglomeration of baroque forms that violently jut in from the bottom left.