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Another word for ferocity

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Noun

  1. Exceptionally great concentration, power, or force, especially in activity

    See also:

    strong

    big

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Another word for ferocity

Noun
  1. See also:

    cruelty

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • Many natives, even if armed, refuse, however, to molest an adult male gorilla, on account of its ferocity when wounded.

  • The signs at the zoo made visitors aware of the ferocity of the caged animals.

  • From the difficult nature of its habitat, and from the ferocity with which it charges an enemy, the pursuit of the bison is no less dangerous and no less exciting than that of the tiger or the elephant.

  • From the earliest times, owing to its great strength, speed, and ferocity when at bay, the boar has been one of the favourite beasts of the chase.

  • He is much less of a mere mocker than Lucian, and he is entirely destitute, even when he deals with monks or pedants, of the ferocity of Swift.

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