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violently

adverb as in furiously

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He likes to try to dominate his peers by violently yanking their hands toward him.

From Salon

“Twin Peaks” conquered the world, and then was violently rejected by that same world for a variety of sins both real and imagined.

The United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon says its outgoing deputy commander has been injured after one of its convoys was "violently attacked".

From BBC

UCLA’s rules add that it can hold students accountable for off-campus behavior if university leaders believe students have acted violently or endorsed violence.

The UN team said "an official policy to attack and violently repress anti-government protesters" had been directed by political leaders and senior security officials.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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