ferocious

  • 21ferocious — [fəˈrəʊʃəs] adj violent and able to cause serious damage or injury a ferocious attack[/ex] ferociously adv …

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  • 22ferocious — [17] Etymologically, ferocious means ‘wild eyed’. It comes from Latin ferox, which was originally a compound formed from ferus ‘fierce, wild’ (source of English feral [17]) and an element oc , ox meaning ‘looking, appearing’. This also appears in …

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  • 23Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters — Infobox Film name = Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters caption = DVD cover for Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters director = Jopi Burnama Charles Kaufman producer = Dhamoo Punjabi writer = Deddy Armand Joey Gaynor Charles Kaufman starring = Eva… …

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  • 24Ferocious Brothers — Infobox Film name = Ferocious Brothers image size = caption = director = Chui Daai Gwan producer = writer = narrator = starring = music = cinematography = editing = distributor = released = 1972 runtime = country = language = Mandarin budget =… …

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  • 25ferocious — adjective a) Marked by extreme and violent energy. b) Extreme or intense. Syn: fierce See Also: ferity, ferocity, fierce …

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  • 26ferocious — Synonyms and related words: Draconian, Tartarean, abandoned, aggressive, amok, animal, antagonistic, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, battling, beastly, bellicose, belligerent, bellowing, berserk, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody,… …

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  • 27ferocious — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. fierce, savage, wild, feral, barbarous, untamed, fell, brutal, cruel, sanguinary, predatory, ravenous, vehement, violent, unrestrained, bloodthirsty, murderous, brutish, pitiless, merciless, unmerciful, fearsome,… …

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  • 28ferocious — fe·ro·cious || fÉ™ rəʊʃəs adj. cruel, savage, ruthless, brutal …

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  • 29ferocious — adjective 1》 savagely fierce, cruel, or violent. 2》 informal very intense or severe. Derivatives ferociously adverb ferociousness noun ferocity noun (plural ferocities). Origin C17 (earlier (C16) as ferocity): from L. ferox, fe …

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  • 30ferocious — a. 1. Untamed (like a wild beast), savage, fierce, wild, ravenous, rapacious, ferine. 2. Barbarous, cruel, inhuman, brutal, fell, ruthless, relentless, merciless, pitiless, sanguinary, bloody, Vandalic …

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