adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
react angrily/violently
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The Prime Minister reacted angrily to these accusations.
shake violently
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She found him huddled in a corner, shaking violently.
swerve violently/sharply
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The car swerved sharply to avoid the dog.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
ill
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On the way home I remember being violently ill in the car because of the pain.
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The beans contain an impurity which causes James to become violently ill .
sick
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When they leave, Ann is violently sick .
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A moment later he turned to his right and was violently sick .
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Feeling her stomach churn with the painful memories, she leaned sideways and was violently sick .
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I managed to drive out of the hospital but I had to stop the car and was violently sick .
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I can cheerfully admit that it made no impact on me apart from an overwhelming urge to be violently sick .
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The stench is so powerful that you feel - and sometimes are - violently sick .
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In mid-sentence he broke off, turned ghastly pale and rushed to the bathroom, where he was violently sick .
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Rex turned away and was violently sick . 11 25.
■ VERB
react
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Small children are encouraged to be small tyrants, to react violently if thwarted.
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For example, water is known to react violently with metallic sodium, another reducing medium utilized commercially.
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But hydrogen peroxide and hydroquinone don't react violently together unless a catalyst is added.
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The drama erupted after a resident in the Middlesbrough hostel mixed two household substances, which reacted violently with each other.
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Jason Tyler tossed pierced canisters of sodium, which reacts violently with water, into the bowls in two cubicles.
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The regime reacted violently and furiously.
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The shrimp growers are reacting violently .
shake
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She was shaking violently and leant against the door for support.
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Already emaciated, he would take only occasional bites of food and seemed to shake violently when he drank fluids.
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It is said that Scheiner, on hearing this in a Rome bookshop, turned purple and shook violently .
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The door before him shook violently and something made him back away.
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One day he fell to the floor at my feet, shaking violently .
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The branch he'd climbed over this morning that had been tom down in the wind was moving, shaking violently .
shiver
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Polly's skin crawled and she shivered violently .
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Bitterly cold, shivering violently from several causes, but out.
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Watching as he pulled on his oilskins with an ease born of long practice, Polly shivered violently .
tremble
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When he finally let her go she was still speechless - and trembling violently .
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My legs and arms tremble violently , but I do not cry.
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The shuttle trembled violently as it accelerated along the runway.
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I was trembling violently from head to foot.
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He shivered again, and began to tremble violently .
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He had been trembling violently for several hours but now no sound came from the place where he lay.
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His body remained stiff and taut, even though he wanted to tremble violently .
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She's trembling violently and she starts to retch, leaning against me for support as the heaving racks her.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I was trembling less violently , but my teeth still chattered.
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When she heard they had gotten engaged, Jenny protested violently .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All eyes went to the open drawer from which the President had so violently recoiled.
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He knew that, despite all her denials, she was still violently attracted to him.
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He touched her arm and she flinched violently .
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It tidies the emotional chaos that comes when a child dies violently .
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Vasili shook her shoulders violently then slapped her across the face.