adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fiery/violent/explosive temper (=likely to get angry and violent very quickly)
▪ Over the years, my sister has learned to control her fiery temper.
a nasty/violent cough (=a very bad cough)
a severe/violent/fierce storm
▪ He set out in a violent storm for Fort William.
a violent argument
▪ The singer was hurt in a violent argument with her husband.
a violent assault
▪ The number of violent assaults in the city has reached an all-time high.
a violent clash
▪ Four people were killed during violent clashes with the army.
(a) violent crime
▪ Figures show a 19% rise in violent crime.
a violent demonstration
▪ Nine people have been killed during violent demonstrations.
a violent disturbance
▪ Over a hundred people were injured during violent disturbances in the capital.
a violent incident
▪ There have been several violent incidents at football matches recently.
a violent/aggressive act
▪ We will track down those responsible for this violent act.
a violent/angry protest
▪ Three people died yesterday in violent protests against the war.
a violent/angry reaction
▪ The artists were surprised by the violent reactions to their work.
a violent/vicious/brutal attack
▪ Police described it as an extremely violent attack.
aggressive/violent tendencies
▪ Some breeds of dog have aggressive tendencies.
aggressive/violent/threatening
▪ His behavior became increasingly violent.
die a sudden/violent/slow etc death
▪ At the end of the play, the main character dies a violent death.
emotional/violent/angry outburst
▪ his father’s violent outbursts of temper
intense/acute/violent etc dislike (=very strong dislike)
▪ His colleagues regarded him with intense dislike.
military/violent/armed confrontation
▪ Japan seemed unlikely to risk military confrontation with Russia.
turn nasty/mean/violent etc (=suddenly become angry, violent etc)
▪ The police are worried that the situation could turn violent.
violent conduct
▪ Their goalkeeper was sent off the field for violent conduct.
violent death (=caused by violence, especially deliberately)
▪ There is a high rate of violent death in America.
violent
▪ That morning, after a violent quarrel, she threatened him with a kitchen knife.
violent/vehement opposition (=showing extremely strong angry feelings)
▪ The 2,000-strong congress met the violent opposition of left-wingers.
▪ There has been vehement opposition from the fishing industry.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ The culture wars are as violent as ever, and the right is on the offensive.
▪ The tempers at the Amphitheatre were as short, if not as violent, as those in the streets.
▪ Its history, if you skipped a thousand years, was as violent as Phnom Penh's or Smolensk's.
▪ The various non-human beings who hunt humans are not portrayed as violent or aggressive either.
▪ BCalvin describes his young son as violent and angry -- a description that suits him just as well.
▪ Mild, persistent delirium, not as violent as in Belladonna restless with laborious dreams, muttering delirium.
▪ But not as violent as Newark, New Jersey.
▪ For instance, much violence in the family now involves the police and so gets recorded as violent crime.
increasingly
▪ For the past year my wife has become increasingly violent.
▪ They are increasingly violent and are slipping in school.
▪ Now the picture is of an increasingly violent struggle to protect a 250m-year-old species.
less
▪ At last her clutch on him became less desperate and her shivers less violent.
▪ Television is less violent now than at any time in history.
▪ New forms of detention, fewer trendy clerics and, familiarly, less violent television.
▪ If a smaller spoon or saucepan is used, the air is less disturbed and the vibrations are less violent.
▪ Britain experiences less violent crime than many comparable countries.
▪ As the vibrations travel, they become less violent and again may not disturb the rice.
▪ In fact women are significantly less violent than men, suggesting that frustration with socio-economic deprivation is not a sufficient explanation.
more
▪ The impact on the Vicariate of Solidarity was even more violent.
▪ As the farmers who held out felt increasingly alone, their methods grew more and more violent.
▪ McDermott and John, instinctively peaceful men, almost over-anxious earlier on to avoid confrontation, are even more violent when pressed.
▪ But as depressions became more violent, such a view was the very reverse of reassuring.
▪ The government also orders, or turns a blind eye to, more violent methods of keeping opponents quiet.
▪ Over the decades, television has been blamed for everything from a more violent society to a fatter generation.
▪ You're bigger than me, you're stronger than me and you've just proved you're more violent than me.
▪ One consequence of this high rate of violence against women, concludes Straus, is that women themselves become more violent.
most
▪ One of the most violent places in Great Britain.
▪ Edna was met with a hushed silence fitting for only the most violent faux pas.
▪ This spirit is depicted in Laocoon's face, and not in the face alone, in spite of the most violent sufferings.
▪ The most violent fighting of recent months flared in several West Bank areas.
▪ The report also criticised the current boom in real-life crime re-enactments, which again tend to concentrate on the most violent crimes.
▪ The most violent protests were in Zakazik, capital of Sharkiya governorate, in the northeast of the delta.
▪ And Pipeline is the most violent of the lot.
often
▪ Nevertheless it is hard to avoid the notion that our meetings with Neanderthals were often violent and fatal.
▪ Karen points out the counterpoint between the atmosphere in Eugene and the often violent attitudes toward minorities: Eugene is Mecca.
▪ The session, which lasted from April 8 to 24, was heated and often violent.
▪ A man who is violent is most often violent towards members of his own family.
▪ Brash and often violent pubs are the only centres of activity.
▪ Strike statistics by themselves may not reflect the often violent background to the annual Spring wage negotiations.
▪ This course of action involved an often violent struggle against unbelief and mistrust.
▪ With hindsight, therefore, only one outcome was likely although the struggle was often violent and bloody.
so
▪ I haven't seen anything so violent before or since.
▪ Reaction was so violent they repealed the program the next year.
▪ When the grand collapse starts, it is so violent and so rapid that nothing can halt it.
▪ Because Oglala was so violent at that time, we were asked to be like a peacekeeping force.
▪ I corrected it and the hook was so violent that people on adjoining fairways dived for cover.
▪ I began staring at mirrors, wondering what it was in my face that made Stepmother Edna so violent, so angry.
▪ He was so violent that local security forces were said to avoid venturing on to his turf.
sometimes
▪ Malouf is fascinated by the sometimes violent impact that complete strangers can have upon our lives.
▪ Confrontation, when it came, was often tense and sometimes violent.
very
▪ Therefore the impact is very violent.
▪ He was a very violent person.
▪ Such a nice man and awful to think of anyone being murdered, although it's a very violent world these days.
▪ It can be extreme and very violent.
▪ Andrew has learned to make this outcome more likely by escalating the tantrums into very violent and therefore frightening episodes.
▪ It was all very violent and distressing to observe at close quarters and the stench really brought it home to me.
▪ My stepfather was a very violent man.
▪ Some were very violent and it was necessary to close and barricade the room.
■ NOUN
action
▪ But Night Trap could not be exempted because it depicted violent actions involving realistic images of human beings rather than straight forward computer graphics.
▪ Obviously, he feared violent action and, to prevent it, planned another attempt at an understanding with the Viceroy.
▪ The rising created an atmosphere of disorder in which those with grievances felt free to take violent action against their enemies.
▪ The truth is that not a single one of the official groups organising protests is planning violent action.
▪ Protestant violent action against Civil Rights marches was seen by Catholics as a threat to their communities.
▪ Essentially he is frustrated and releases his frustration by careless and violent action.
▪ Or even if not wholeheartedly within this tradition, to posit some form of violent action as the only solution.
▪ Reformist leaders have told the public to remain calm to deprive hardliners in the security forces of any pretext for violent action.
acts
▪ We have, therefore to consider these other aspects of violent acts.
▪ Ultimately the batterer is himself tricked by his lustful appetite, and his violent acts inevitably escalate.
▪ Outrage at the injustices erupted in violent acts.
▪ Men were twice as likely as women to perceive those violent acts as improving the relationship.
▪ Police departments are accustomed to an increase in violent acts when the moon is fall.
argument
▪ Even a violent argument will leave you mentally high and quite unfit to fly.
▪ There was violent argument and vituperation on both sides.
▪ To an Elf or a Dwarf, they seem to be having a violent argument.
attack
▪ I was terrified Voice over Nottingham Crown court heard medical evidence showed Fisher took no sadistic pleasure in violent attacks on women.
▪ The arrests were thought to be in connection with a series of violent attacks.
▪ Last year 7.3 million people-about 33 of every 1,000 U.S. residents-endured a violent attack.
▪ This has been distorted in the press as tantamount to planning violent attacks on the summit.
▪ Blacks were more often victims of violent attacks than whites, Hispanics or other ethnic groups.
▪ Once it began the protest turned from non-violent to violent attack.
▪ Increasingly, it's the reason for many violent attacks.
behaviour
▪ James Harper, defending, said Colling believed his drinks had been spiked with a narcotic substance which caused his violent behaviour.
▪ The doctor had suffered a temporary mental collapse and subsequent bouts of violent behaviour.
▪ Some maintain violent programmes do encourage violent behaviour and something needs to be done.
▪ Nor do we easily associate ourselves with violent behaviour.
▪ The Buid have as much of a capacity for violent behaviour as the members of any other society.
▪ Youngest son Joe made some dramatic accusations that his dad terrified them all with his violent behaviour.
▪ The local drop-in centre, run by a mental health charity, banned Ben for violent behaviour.
▪ That is, unacceptable as representations, whether or not they have effects on sexually violent behaviour.
clash
▪ In the Forest of Dean poaching was rife, and there were frequent violent clashes between keepers and poachers.
▪ There were violent clashes between police and pickets, notably at the Orgreave coking depot in Rotherham in the summer of 1984.
▪ Borja ordered the armed forces to intervene after violent clashes, including gunfire, between the security forces and the demonstrators.
▪ In Dresden, witnesses reported violent clashes between police and would-be emigrants desperate to board trains to the West.
▪ Four people were reportedly killed during violent clashes with the Army in the capital, Santo Domingo.
▪ Weekend celebrations to mark the end of military rule had led to violent clashes between police and demonstrators.
▪ Protests continue nightly in Vienna and other cities, peaceful affairs now unlike the violent clashes of recent weeks.
conduct
▪ Section 8 says that violence means any violent conduct towards persons or property.
▪ It was as clear a case of violent conduct as could be imagined.
▪ Their opponents, an experienced club side, are all being reported for violent conduct.
▪ If Hateley is found guilty of violent conduct, the disciplinary committee are empowered to extend the player's ban.
conflict
▪ But the drama of a violent conflict that was caused partly by environmental factors has not had a spin-off effect for turtles.
▪ As long as Milosevic was firmly in control, it was thought, there was no risk of violent conflict.
confrontation
▪ Eventually Wayne's patience ran out and in a violent confrontation, Wayne finally threw the smaller Widmark against a wall.
▪ The authorities and assailants exchanged fire in a violent confrontation in which Cuenca and police officer Santiago Esparza Astorga were killed.
▪ More than 300 people had been arrested after violent confrontations with the security forces in Ain Shams after the policeman's death.
▪ The occurrence of violent confrontations on campuses and on the streets was no longer primarily confined to the summer months.
▪ In some cases it has led to violent confrontations requiring police intervention.
▪ This willingness by police and pickets to engage in violent confrontation was dramatically revealed during the 1984-5 coal dispute.
▪ The existence of competing bodies claiming to exercise jurisdiction in the town inevitably provoked violent confrontation.
▪ There were violent confrontations with some 900 police, who kept the two groups apart; about 50 arrests were made.
crime
▪ Most of those arrested were reported to have been previously convicted of drug and arms trafficking and violent crimes.
▪ The overall violent crime rate fell 4 percent in 1995 for those 17 and under, the first drop since 1987.
▪ His immediate focus is on eliminating high-level corruption and reducing violent crime.
▪ As a police reporter for the Miami Herald, she covered thousands of murders and other violent crimes.
▪ There is now much more public demand for support to the victims of violent crime.
▪ In Vista, for example, arrests for violent crimes nearly doubled, from 26 in 1990 to 47 last year.
▪ This detail may not make the annual recorded crime figures, showing another rise in violent crime, seem much more palatable.
▪ Today, London is one of the safest major cities in the world and violent crimes are exceedingly rare.
criminal
▪ This is the big stick treatment for violent criminals which is traditionally associated with an extreme Right-wing attitude.
▪ Even the life-giving sun itself is being accused and feared like a violent criminal on the loose.
▪ President Clinton signed a law last year that requires states to make information on sexually violent criminals available to the public.
death
▪ In each case the life style and violent death is similar.
▪ They say people who die sudden, violent deaths are most likely to become ghosts and haunt the earth.
▪ On March 28, 1980, all the workers died a sudden, violent death, no time to say goodbye.
▪ I thought a lot about Agnes, her violent death and those of her family.
▪ This was the Cradle: the country of violent birth and violent death.
▪ Nothing, above all, to betray the cosmic anger which invariably surged through his being in the presence of violent death.
▪ Only two foreign diplomats have been involved in violent deaths in the United States.
demonstration
▪ This sparked violent demonstrations outside the base.
▪ Such political behavior can manifest itself in strikes, violent demonstrations, insurrections, and revolutionary action.
▪ In July 1986 violent demonstrations occurred at Yarmuk University in which thousands were arrested.
▪ Thus in July 1981 a violent demonstration took place in Kano against a particular policy of the Governor.
▪ Further violent demonstrations were reported in Douala on Oct. 14, leaving dozens injured and causing major damage to property.
▪ In 1932 there were violent demonstrations, several of them leading to serious riots.
▪ A violent demonstration at the time drew 20000 participants to the site.
disorder
▪ Three men were arrested on suspicion of causing violent disorder and were released on police bail.
▪ The next day, after sporadic incidents, violent disorder erupted at about 7.00 p. m. Disorder occurred again in 1986.
▪ Seven defendants were charged with violent disorder at or outside a night club and with various assaults on police officers.
▪ The seven, all from Gosport, admitted violent disorder.
▪ Now the agitation in the country and the violent disorder it threatened could be directed against the Government.
▪ Lord and Murray also denied conspiracy to cause violent disorder.
▪ But Livingstone and Hardy, both 20, had denied a charge of violent disorder during the incident last September.
explosion
▪ This caused a violent explosion resulting in extensive damage.
▪ He had nearly reached the landing when he felt a sudden and violent explosion in his head.
▪ As a result, violent explosions rocked the vessel and led to its abandonment within an hour of the attack.
▪ Calderas created by violent explosions can be of enormous size.
▪ Fearing a more violent explosion of disagreement, pride in not wanting to be the first to make a move.
▪ According to these learned fellows, the universe began with a violent explosion.
film
▪ They have a violent film then they have a violent advert.
▪ He thought of hitting Guy, saw himself doing it, like some violent film, slow-motion.
image
▪ Her imagination jagged with tumbling violent images of what he might do to her.
▪ Maryvonne told me about her nightmares, every single night, violent images of rape, murder, dismemberment.
▪ Government policy over the media and its display of sexually violent images thus appears contradictory.
▪ Still smoking, he started to get those violent images again when there was a soft tap on his window.
▪ Some of the media were interested only in portraying a violent image of Blackbird Leys.
incident
▪ There have been several reports this year of petty theft and one violent incident.
▪ In 1983 alone, 147 violent incidents were reported to the National Abortion Federation by member clinics.
▪ Between 1968 and 1970, there were numerous violent incidents involving shootouts between the police and members of the Black Panthers organisation.
▪ By March 1984, forty-four violent incidents had already been reported that year to the National Abortion Federation.
▪ Mr Chinotimba has been identified at the centre of several violent incidents.
▪ A handful of violent incidents flared before June 30.
▪ Many commentators suggest that violent incidents are best understood as unique events.
▪ Ken Robinson has expressed his deep concern at the increasing frequency of violent incidents within the east Antrim area.
man
▪ He was a cruel, violent man, who had lived an evil life full of hate and jealousy.
▪ Yet for all his proverbial fire and brimstone, my father was not a violent man.
▪ Fernand had witnessed death, but he was not a violent man.
▪ My stepfather was a very violent man.
▪ So leaders, and their followers on the frontiers of empire, often looked like disobedient and violent men.
▪ It was true, she thought; in spite of his gentle, drunken ineffectiveness, he could easily be a violent man.
▪ And violent men use the resources of language to define situations in particular ways.
▪ Reputations For such a violent man Tyson is surprisingly sensitive.
outburst
▪ She made it clear that she wished their relationship to continue, but could nor tolerate Charles's violent outbursts.
▪ Some became edgy, prone to violent outbursts.
▪ She was silent except for little violent outbursts about capital punishment and Iris Murdoch writing too much.
▪ There were the violent outbursts, way out of proportion to any wrong done, and constant verbal abuse.
▪ Most of his friends agreed that he was subject to violent outbursts of temper.
▪ He has accused Sun Bonds of having violent outbursts, including one occasion when she trashed his sports trophies.
protest
▪ She is in danger of running into violent protests, said an extreme right- wing group last night.
▪ The move had sparked violent protests among students, parents and teachers, resulting in seven injuries and ten arrests.
▪ It can't be, an inner voice shrieked in violent protest.
▪ History shows that the usual response to violent protest and riots was repression.
▪ An effigy of Mr MacSharry was burned by protesting farmers in Strasbourg last week in a violent protest against the deal.
▪ The most violent protests were in Zakazik, capital of Sharkiya governorate, in the northeast of the delta.
▪ The issue has become a student and union cause, sometimes taking the form of violent protests against the administration.
▪ There were now violent protests throughout the nation, calling for withdrawal.
reaction
▪ Learning pro-social behaviour is an essential part of controlling aggressive and violent reactions.
▪ But critics say the police seem intent on provoking a violent reaction.
▪ They say some chief constables are unwilling to enforce the law, in case it provokes a violent reaction from the travellers.
▪ But much of it was due to provocation from the students whose ranks had been infiltrated by revolutionaries seeking a violent reaction.
▪ Never, never had he felt such a violent reaction to a woman.
storm
▪ In 1981 violent storms redistributed some of the plutonium, along with other radioactive wastes stored ashore.
▪ Passing beneath it, Crevecoeur was reminded of a violent storm of hail beating upon his head.
▪ Travelling home one night in a violent storm, Polly was struck by lightning and had to be destroyed.
▪ The slaves gathered on August 30, 1800, but disbanded because a violent storm and flood made military operations impossible.
▪ The authors also predict an increase in violent storms, fires, landslides and avalanches in the Alpine region as well as widespread deforestation.
▪ Langtoft is perhaps most notorious for its record of freak weather conditions and violent storms.
▪ During a violent storm it broke away and drifted westwards until it hit land on the barren headland of San Quentin.
▪ Within minutes the brown patch of sky enveloped me, as a violent storm swept across the dunes.
struggle
▪ A violent struggle for economic and political control can not be ruled out.
▪ The 12-year war is officially over, but the rebuilding of the infrastructure has been quite a violent struggle for the people.
▪ Now the picture is of an increasingly violent struggle to protect a 250m-year-old species.
▪ This course of action involved an often violent struggle against unbelief and mistrust.
▪ After a violent struggle this grew to a membership of around a hundred within three years.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Violent crime has decreased in the last decade.
▪ violent street gangs
▪ a violent coughing fit
▪ a violent overthrow of the government
▪ Do violent programmes and video games really cause people to become more aggressive?
▪ Everyone is worried about the increase in violent crime.
▪ I think Tarantino's films are too violent.
▪ Joe has a violent temper.
▪ My father was a violent man who couldn't control his temper.
▪ There was a violent protest outside the court, and a police officer was injured.
▪ Travellers to the country have been urged to avoid large crowds, which have occasionally turned violent in the past.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Adam screamed, loud and violent, in his attempt to absorb the pain.
▪ But critics say the police seem intent on provoking a violent reaction.
▪ Chapter 5 looks at attempts to explain violent political dissent and the surge of revolutionary movements.
▪ It is dramatic and violent and beautiful-no native of the island could not have believed in a volcano goddess.
▪ Outrage at the injustices erupted in violent acts.
▪ Overall crime rates fell by 2.7 % in the year to March, but violent crime increased.
▪ The governor handled the violent uncertainties of his country, the incessant bloodletting, a lot better than I did.