Definitions
Fierce, violent, or intensely aggressive.
Word origin
Taken from Latin ferōx (“wild, bold, savage, fierce”) + -ous.
Used in a sentence
“But it seemed to me that there were few faces like his, with the ferocious profile that brought to mind the Latin word rapax or one of Rouault's crazed death-dealing arbitrary kings.”
“Scotland needed a victory by eight points to have a realistic chance of progressing to the knock-out stages, and for long periods of a ferocious contest looked as if they might pull it off.”
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01“Fierce”9 letters
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