Eager, impetuous, violent. Of a storm, a shower, †waves, etc.: Heavy, violent.

Of a storm: harsh, severe. Obsolete.

Of the sky, sea, wind, etc.: violent, raging, stormy.

That storms or rages.

transferred. Of the elements: Moving with or as if moved by fury, violent, raging.

Of wind, a storm, the sea: wild, violent.

Of a process, force, or natural agent: full of furious activity; violent. Obsolete.

Chiefly literary. Of the sea, sky, etc.: raging, stormy; = angry, adj. 11.

Of drink: potent. Of a voice or cry: loud. Of a fit, a storm: violent. archaic.

Of a wind or storm: So violent as to tear things up or in pieces; raging.

= irrefrenable, adj.