Definition of "violent death" []

• An event that causes someone to die (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "At AEI, he amped up his usual sky-is-falling rhetoric, claiming that the coercive interrogations of al-Qaeda detainees had “prevented the violent death of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of innocent people.”"
• "This unworthy and cruel usage might well exasperate Cacil; but fearing their power, who had affronted him in the person of his mother, and having the violent death of his brothers before his eyes, he curbed his resentments, and broke not out into the least complaint."
• "Not boys any more but men, though not men in the Bob-Jack-Hughie mold; hardship, battle euphoria and violent death had made something out of them Drogheda never could."