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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fierce \Fierce\, a. [Compar. {Fiercer}; superl. {Fiercest}.]
     [OE. fers, fiers, OF. fier, nom. fiers, fierce, savage,
     cruel, F. fier proud, from L. ferus wild, savage, cruel;
     perh. akin to E. bear the animal. Cf. {Feral}, {Ferocity}.]
     1. Furious; violent; unrestrained; impetuous; as, a fierce
        wind.


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              His fierce thunder drove us to the deep. --Milton.
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     2. Vehement in anger or cruelty; ready or eager to kill or
        injure; of a nature to inspire terror; ferocious. "A
        fierce whisper." --Dickens. "A fierce tyrant." --Pope.
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              The fierce foe hung upon our broken rear. --Milton.
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              Thou huntest me as a fierce lion.     --Job. x. 16.
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     3. Excessively earnest, eager, or ardent.
  
     Syn: Ferocious; savage; cruel; vehement; impetuous;
          barbarous; fell. See {Ferocious}. -- {Fierce"ly}, adv.
          -- {Fierce"ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fierce
       adj 1: marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating";
              "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle" [syn: {ferocious},
               {furious}, {savage}]
       2: marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions;
          inclined to react violently; fervid; "fierce loyalty"; "in
          a tearing rage"; "vehement dislike"; "violent passions"
          [syn: {tearing}, {vehement}, {violent}, {trigger-happy}]
       3: ruthless in competition; "cutthroat competition"; "bowelless
          readiness to take advantage" [syn: {cutthroat}, {bowelless}]
       4: violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and
          waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra
          Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas" [syn: {boisterous}, {rough}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  227 Moby Thesaurus words for "fierce":
     Draconian, Tartarean, abandoned, acid, acidulous, acrid,
     acrimonious, acute, aggressive, amok, angry, animal, antagonistic,
     anthropophagous, astringent, atrocious, awful, barbaric, barbarous,
     battling, beastly, bellicose, belligerent, bellowing, berserk,
     bestial, biting, bitter, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded,
     brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, carried away,
     caustic, chauvinist, chauvinistic, combative, concentrated,
     contentious, cruel, cruel-hearted, cutting, dangerous, delirious,
     demoniac, demoniacal, desperate, devilish, diabolic, dire,
     distracted, double-edged, drastic, dreadful, ecstatic, edged,
     enemy, enraged, enraptured, escharotic, excessive, exorbitant,
     exquisite, extravagant, extreme, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious,
     fiendish, fiendlike, fiery, fighting, fighting mad, frantic,
     frenzied, full of fight, fulminating, fuming, furious, great, grim,
     haggard, harsh, hawkish, hellish, hog-wild, homicidal, hopping mad,
     hostile, hotheaded, howling, hysterical, immoderate, impetuous,
     in a rage, in a transport, in hysterics, incisive, infernal,
     infuriate, infuriated, inhuman, inhumane, inimical, inordinate,
     intemperate, intense, intoxicated, intractable, jingo, jingoish,
     jingoist, jingoistic, keen, kill-crazy, mad, maddened, madding,
     malign, malignant, maniac, martial, menacing, merciless, militant,
     militaristic, military, mordacious, mordant, murderous,
     noncivilized, offensive, orgasmic, orgiastic, outrageous,
     passionate, penetrating, piercing, pitiless, poignant, possessed,
     pugnacious, quarrelsome, rabid, racking, raging, ramping, ranting,
     raving, raving mad, ravished, rigorous, roaring, roaring mad,
     rough, running mad, ruthless, saber-rattling, sadistic, sanguinary,
     sanguineous, satanic, savage, scathing, scrappy, severe, sharkish,
     sharp, simmering, slavering, soldierlike, soldierly, splitting,
     stabbing, stinging, storming, stormy, strident, stringent,
     subhuman, superlative, supreme, tameless, tart, tempestuous,
     terrible, threatening, tigerish, tornadic, tough, transcendent,
     transported, trenchant, trigger-happy, truculent, tumultuous,
     turbulent, unchristian, uncivilized, unconscionable,
     uncontrollable, unfriendly, ungentle, unhuman, unpacific,
     unpeaceable, unpeaceful, untamed, vehement, venomous, vicious,
     violent, virulent, vitriolic, volcanic, warlike, warmongering,
     warring, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking, wolfish
  
  

















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