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Another word for ferocious

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Adjective

  1. Showing or suggesting a disposition to be violently destructive without scruple or restraint

    See also:

    kind

  2. So intense as to cause extreme suffering

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    kind

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Sentence Examples

  • The stories of his ferocious savagery exceed belief.

  • After a ferocious contest, the Danes were practically annihilated.

  • Ferocious yells of triumph rang from the mob.

  • They fought with the grey swords, combining the sword dance with hand-to-hand combat moves for a ferocious battle that surprised her.

  • In the early part of his reign he appears, in agreement with the Turkish sultan and the king of Poland, turning out the Hungarian vassal, the ferocious Vlad, from the Walachian throne, and annexing the coast cities of Kilia and Cetatea Alba or Byelgorod, the Turkish Akkerman.

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