explode; let fly, fly off; discharge, detonate, set off,
detonize[obs3], fulminate. 
     Adj. violent, vehement; warm; acute, sharp; rough, rude, ungentle,
bluff, boisterous, wild; brusque, abrupt, waspish; impetuous; rampant.
     turbulent; disorderly; blustering, raging &c. v.; troublous[obs3],
riotous; tumultuary[obs3], tumultuous; obstreperous, uproarious; extravagant; unmitigated; ravening, inextinguishable, tameless; frenzied &c. (insane) 503. desperate &c. (rash) 863; infuriate, furious, outrageous, frantic, hysteric, in hysterics.
     fiery, flaming, scorching, hot, red-hot, ebullient.
     savage, fierce, ferocious, fierce as a tiger.
     excited &c. v.; unquelled[obs3], unquenched, unextinguished[obs3],
unrepressed, unbridled, unruly; headstrong, ungovernable, unappeasable, immitigable, unmitigable[obs3]; uncontrollable, incontrollable[obs3]; insuppressible, irrepressible; orgastic, orgasmatic, orgasmic.
     spasmodic, convulsive, explosive; detonating &c. v.; volcanic,
meteoric; stormy &c. (wind) 349. 
     Adv. violently &c. adj.; amain[obs3]; by storm, by force, by main
force; with might and main; tooth and nail, vi et armis[Lat], at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet; at one fell swoop; with a high hand, through thick and thin; in desperation, with a vengeance; a outrance[obs3], a toute outrance[Fr][obs3]; headlong, head foremost. 
     Phr. furor arma ministrat[Lat]; “blown with restless violence round
about the pendent world” [Measure for Measure].

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     #174.  Moderation.—­ N. moderation, lenity &c. 740; temperateness,
gentleness &c. adj.; sobriety; quiet; mental calmness &c. (inexcitability) 826[obs3].
     moderating &c. v.; anaphrodisia[obs3]; relaxation, remission,
mitigation, tranquilization[obs3], assuagement, contemporation[obs3], pacification.
     measure, juste milieu[Fr], golden mean, gr/ariston metron/gr[Grk].
moderator; lullaby, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, antispasmodic, carminative, laudanum; rose water, balm, poppy, opiate, anodyne, milk, opium, “poppy or mandragora”; wet blanket; palliative. 
     V. be -moderate &c. adj.; keep within bounds, keep within compass;
sober down, settle down; keep the peace, remit, relent, take in sail.
     moderate, soften, mitigate, temper, accoy|; attemper[obs3],
contemper[obs3]; mollify, lenify[obs3], dulcify[obs3], dull, take off the edge, blunt, obtund[obs3], sheathe, subdue, chasten; sober down, tone down, smooth down; weaken &c. 160; lessen &c. (decrease) 36; check palliate.
     tranquilize, pacify, assuage, appease, swag, lull, soothe, compose,
still, calm, calm down, cool, quiet, hush, quell, sober, pacify, tame, damp, lay, allay, rebate, slacken, smooth, alleviate, rock to sleep, deaden, smooth, throw cold water on, throw a wet blanket over, turn off; slake; curb &c. (restrain) 751; tame &c. (subjugate)