VIOLENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does violently mean? 

• VIOLENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb VIOLENTLY has 1 sense:

1. in a violent manner

  Familiarity information: VIOLENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIOLENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a violent manner

Context example:

they attacked violently

Antonym:

nonviolently (without violence)

Pertainym:

violent (acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity)

 Context examples 

Felix trembled violently as he said this.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It's very much to be wished that some mothers would leave their daughters alone after marriage, and not be so violently affectionate.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Johansen, however, continued violently to urge him on to the completion of his task.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

As he was thus sitting, his finger hurt him so violently that he involuntarily put it in the water.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Earthquakes strike suddenly, violently, and without warning at any time of the day or night.

(Earthquakes, Federal Emergency Management Agency)

Scientists surmised that the molecule was spontaneously thrown together within the bellies of these gas giants and, as Sousa-Silva describes, violently dredged up by huge, planet-sized convective storms.

(Poisonous Earthly Molecule May Be Sign of Extraterrestrial Life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Edith stood in the middle of the floor, wringing her hands, panting and gasping, her whole body trembling violently.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

One is that after the second glass was filled the bottle was violently agitated, and so the third glass received the beeswing.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Good even to you, comrades! Hola! a woman, by my soul!” and in an instant he had clipped Dame Eliza round the waist and was kissing her violently.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Dominants rarely tolerate rival breeders, and violently eject subordinates from the group if they feel threatened.

(Breeder meerkats age faster, but their subordinates still die younger, University of Cambridge)