VIOLENT DEATH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does violent death mean? 

• VIOLENT DEATH (noun)
  The noun VIOLENT DEATH has 1 sense:

1. an event that causes someone to die

  Familiarity information: VIOLENT DEATH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIOLENT DEATH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An event that causes someone to die

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

killing; violent death

Hypernyms ("violent death" is a kind of...):

fatality; human death (a death resulting from an accident or a disaster)

 Context examples 

Wealth was an inferior object, but what glory would attend the discovery if I could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I was not new to violent death—I have served his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, and got a wound myself at Fontenoy—but I know my pulse went dot and carry one.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

For a minute Jo's heart stood still, as he swung himself down the bank toward the river, but it takes much folly, sin or misery to send a young man to a violent death, and Laurie was not one of the weak sort who are conquered by a single failure.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She could remember dozens who had persevered in every possible vice, going on from crime to crime, murdering whomsoever they chose, without any feeling of humanity or remorse; till a violent death or a religious retirement closed their black career.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Here is one of the three men whom we had named as possible actors in this drama, and he meets a violent death during the very hours when we know that that drama was being enacted.

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