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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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... The fierce warrior-king of England, his mighty sword in hand, was cutting down Turks as though they were grain-stalks, but still the Saracen horde pressed on. More and more of the terrible Turks came boiling down out of the hills, their ...

— ...After a Few Words... • Gordon Randall Garrett

... then that he meant no harm, but wanted the fish which he could not catch himself. Now there was a change, a flash of the king's temper. With a roar of wings he whirled round the hawk like a tempest, bringing up short and fierce, squarely in his line of flight. There he poised on dark broad wings, his yellow eyes glaring fiercely into the shrinking soul of Ismaquehs, his talons drawn hard back for a deadly strike. And Simmo the Indian, who had run down ...

— Wilderness Ways • William J Long

... to meet with calmness the great emergencies of the government for twenty- five years. He has trodden the perilous heights of public duty, and against all the shafts of malice has borne his breast unharmed. He has stood in the blaze of 'that fierce light that beats upon a throne,' but its fiercest ray has found no flaw in his armor, ...

— Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. • John Sherman

... say their prayers, to observe Muharram as a season of mourning and to go on pilgrimage to Mecca and Kerbala. They strictly abstain from music and dancing and from using or dealing in intoxicating drinks or drugs. Though fierce sectarians, keenly hating and hated by the regular Sunnis and other Muhammadans than those of their own sect, their reverence for Ali and for their high priest seems to be further removed from adoration than among the Khojahs. They would appear to accept the ordinary distinctions ...

— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume II • R. V. Russell

... closer, I was surprised to find a colony of tropical doodle-bugs. Straightway I chose a grass-stem and squatting, began fishing as I had fished many years ago in the southern states. Soon a nibble and then an angry pull, and I jerked out the irate little chap. He had the same naked bumpy body and the fierce head, and when two or three were put together, they fought blindly and with ...

— Edge of the Jungle • William Beebe

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