"violently" meaning in English

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Adverb

IPA: /ˈvaɪ(ə)ləntli/ Audio: en-us-violently.ogg [US] Forms: more violently [comparative], most violently [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English violently; equivalent to violent + -ly. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|violently}} Middle English violently, {{af|en|violent|-ly|id2=adverbial}} violent + -ly Head templates: {{en-adv}} violently (comparative more violently, superlative most violently)
  1. In a violent manner. Translations (in a violent manner): بِعُنْف (bi-ʕunf) (Arabic), بعنف (beʕunf) [Egyptian-Arabic] (Arabic), violentament (Catalan), gewelddadig (Dutch), violemment (French), violentamente (Galician), gewalttätig (German), erőszakosan (Hungarian), ofsalega (Icelandic), violentoze (Ido), violentamente (Italian), violently (Middle English), violentamente (Portuguese), violent (Romanian), cu violență (Romanian), रभसा (rabhasā) (Sanskrit), violentamente (Spanish), a lo bestia (Spanish)
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  2. To an intense degree; extremely; strongly; intensely. Translations (to an intense degree; extremely; strongly; intensely): hevesen (Hungarian), erőteljesen (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-violently-en-adv-l7TqoaDn Disambiguation of 'to an intense degree; extremely; strongly; intensely': 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: nonviolently
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (d6fca27 and 65e1673). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.