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Fierce   /fɪrs/   Listen
adjective
Fierce  adj.  (compar. fiercer; superl. fiercest)  
1.
Furious; violent; unrestrained; impetuous; as, a fierce wind. "His fierce thunder drove us to the deep."
2.
Vehement in anger or cruelty; ready or eager to kill or injure; of a nature to inspire terror; ferocious. "A fierce whisper." "A fierce tyrant." "The fierce foe hung upon our broken rear." "Thou huntest me as a fierce lion."
3.
Excessively earnest, eager, or ardent.
Synonyms: Ferocious; savage; cruel; vehement; impetuous; barbarous; fell. See Ferocious.






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"Fierce" Quotes from Famous Books



... to it," said Juggut Khan, panting too, for the battle had been fierce and furious while it lasted. "The fakir knows the trick. It is heavy, in any case. But, if we make him tell ...
— Told in the East • Talbot Mundy

... Board," and after some preliminary service with a company of the third battalion, was assigned to the command of Company H of the second battalion, with whose fortunes my lot was cast till the close of our term of service. On the turtle-backed crown of Dutch Island we remained amid fierce storms and the howling winds that swept with keen edge over the waters of the Narragansett, until the 20th of January, 1864, when, as I was about to make a visit home, the transport, Daniel Webster, appeared in the harbor and orders were issued ...
— Reminiscences of two years with the colored troops • Joshua M. Addeman

... had to be the burthen of the song on both sides. Carey was pushing back her hair with a fierce, wild sense of impatience with that calm assumption that fretted her beyond all bearing, and made her feel desolate beyond all else. She would have, she thought, done well enough alone with her children, and scrambled into her new home; but the directions, however needful, seemed to ...
— Magnum Bonum • Charlotte M. Yonge

... known, and in answer to my enquiries why it had not been followed, I was always told that the country through which it flowed was inhabited by tribes of savages, who live on snakes and vermin, and are fierce and warlike. These are no doubt the Singpho, Bor and Bor-abor tribes who inhabit the mountains of upper Assam. A travelling mendicant was once sent to follow up the Dihong to the Burrampooter, under ...
— Himalayan Journals (Complete) • J. D. Hooker

... much more fond of amusing herself with Mars (Ares), the god of war, another of the evil gods, for he was fierce, cruel, and violent, and where he went slaughter and blood were sure to follow him and his horrid daughter Bellona. His star was "the red planet Mars;" but Venus had the beautiful clear one, which, according as it is seen either at sunrise or sunset, ...
— Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History • Charlotte M. Yonge


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