Vocabulary
Violent
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
using or involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something
Urdu meaning
پرتشدد، شدید
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Over the past year, journalists working for us have been targeted in different and violent ways at protests in countries as varied as Turkiye, Argentina and the United States.
- Beyond Iran, these utopian notions are sustained mainly by radicals, both violent and non-violent, within Muslim societies, as well as by ideologues who occasionally compel rulers to adopt such rhetoric, as has of ten happened in Pakistan.
- Other countries in this corner of the world have seen violent upheavals in recent years over different strains of state dysfunction.
- Essentially, it was a strong and violent reaction to elite capture, inequality and injustice.
- Angry youth turned violent when the state apparatus resorted to coercive tactics.
Synonyms
brutal, vicious, savage, harsh, rough, aggressive,
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