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FEROCIOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by extreme and violent energy
Example:
a furious battle
Synonyms:
ferocious; fierce; furious; savage
Classified under:
Similar:
violent (acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity)
Derivation:
ferociousness (the trait of extreme cruelty)
ferocity (the property of being wild or turbulent)
Context examples:
The muscles of his whole body contracted spasmodically and instinctively, the hair on his neck and shoulders stood on end, and with a ferocious snarl he bounded straight up into the blinding day, the snow flying about him in a flashing cloud.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
They were his environment, these men, and they were moulding the clay of him into a more ferocious thing than had been intended by Nature.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
There seemed a certain spice about it, such as men must feel who take delight in making pets of ferocious animals.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
THEY used to come at all hours, and some of them were quite ferocious.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A ferocious beast would surely have destroyed them and left their remains.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It needed very little more to finish the supper by a general and ferocious battle, and it was only the exertions of Jackson, Belcher, Harrison, and others of the cooler and steadier men, which saved us from a riot.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This was the man that looked at White Fang, delighted in his ferocious prowess, and desired to possess him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
When he laughs it is from a humour that is nothing else than ferocious.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I was in a state of ferocious virtue, however, as to young men who were not cutting down trees in the forest of difficulty; and my impression must be received with due allowance.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
We can only imagine, therefore, that the balance of Nature is preserved by some check which limits the numbers of these ferocious creatures.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
