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adjective

Fierce adj. (compar. fiercer; superl. fiercest)

Furious; violent; unrestrained; impetuous; as, a fierce wind. "His fierce thunder drove us to the deep."

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."

Excessively earnest, eager, or ardent.

Synonyms: Ferocious; savage; cruel; vehement; impetuous; barbarous; fell. See Ferocious.

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"Fierce" Quotes from Famous Books

... suddenly from out the sheets of driving rain loomed a vessel, a foreigner. If she had been a phantom ship, as at first they thought she must be, she could not have appeared more strangely, suddenly, or unexpectedly. But it was no phantom battling so bravely, yet so hopelessly with the fierce waves, ploughing her way through them, defying their efforts to draw her down and devour her. She rolled and lurched heavily, and was driven closer and closer on to the jagged rocks of that cruel coast; her sails were in rags, and she herself ...

— Cornwall's Wonderland • Mabel Quiller-Couch

... went through Columbia College there wa'n't anybody there but the janitor; so I'm takin' a postprandial whirl at this number dope, and it's fierce." ...

— Torchy • Sewell Ford

... the coolness and ferocity of his son, and bethought how he might employ him advantageously. Now there were at Kumaso in Kyushu two brothers, fierce and rebellious bandits, who paid small respect to the imperial wishes. The emperor conceived that it would be a fitting achievement for his fearless son to put an end to these reckless outlaws. So Yamato-dake borrowed from his aunt her female apparel, and hiding a sword in the bosom of his dress, ...

— Japan • David Murray

... said, thrusting her arm through Rosabel's, "let's go back home. There's nothing doing here. And that wind cuts through one like a knife. Gee, it's fierce, isn't it?" ...

— Quill's Window • George Barr McCutcheon

... by the natives with spear and gun, no less than twelve thousand hundredweight of ivory has been exported in a single year [Ibid.] All other kinds of large beasts known to man inhabit these obscure retreats. The fierce rhinoceros crashes through the undergrowth. Among the reeds of melancholy swamps huge hippopotami, crocodiles, and buffaloes prosper and increase. Antelope of every known and many unclassified species; serpents of peculiar venom; countless ...

— The River War • Winston S. Churchill

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