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ADJECTIVE fierce COMPARATIVE fiercer SUPERLATIVE fiercest
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fierce English

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Definitions in simple English

fierce

If something or someone is fierce, then they are violent or aggressive. The dinosaur was fierce.

fierce

(= ferocious, furious) marked by extreme and violent energy a ferocious beating fierce fighting a furious battle (= tearing, vehement, violent) marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid fierce loyalty in a tearing rage vehement dislike violent passions (= cutthroat, bowelless) ruthless in competition cutthroat competition bowelless readiness to take advantage (= boisterous, rough) violently agitated and turbulent boisterous winds and waves the fierce thunders roar me their music — Ezra Pound rough weather rough seas

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Simple sentences

He gave me a fierce look.
The competition has become fierce.
We are in a fierce competition with that company.
A fierce dog attacked the girl.
A fierce battle was fought by the soldiers.
You're going to come up against fierce competition.
Be careful. It's a fierce bull.
Tom looks fierce.
Their dog was so fierce that he kept everyone away.
They fought a fierce battle.
The competition is fierce.
Tom is fierce.
Tom gave me a fierce look.
Savages fear the appearance of a fierce wild beast.
Mihari is guarding the gate to Pinku Reiga's mansion. In spite of her harmless looks, she has earned herself a reputation as a cold-hearted, fierce and merciless killing machine.
It is said that the Sentinelese are extremely fierce people.
My hate for Tom has grown to a raging fire that burns with the fierce passion of a million suns.

Movie subtitles

Because I look fierce.
Laansoo barely managed to get her to - a less dangerous place when a fierce battle began.
The tanks met fierce resistance at the borders.
That darn cast itches something fierce, doesn't it?
Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming, in thunder and in earthquake like a Jove, that if requiring fail, he will compel.
The Braukoffs have a fierce bulldog!
It's fierce.
He's got a fierce psychopathic devotion for her.
She was carrying on something fierce.
I was attracted to her fierce spirit, but, after all, she was just like other women.
Rosie, the currents are fierce!
His kindness and his gruff humor but the missing is all mixed-up with such a fierce pride in what he did that I have no room for mourning.
My landlady is fierce.
Is he very fierce? Oh, no.
So proud, so fierce, and yet, so infinitely soothing.
No. That's certain death. The savages in these parts are fierce cannibals.
We're fierce sick of this.
That huge monster attacked me and after a fierce struggle he hurled me to the ground and stamped on me.
Them big, strong, red-headed men, they're fierce.
He'll be a huge, fierce, dangerous gorilla.
I miss him something fierce.
Rosie, are you cracked? The currents down there are fierce.
Our emotions are fierce, like the desert wind.
You'll see Mars, the fierce red star.
They were spooning about something fierce. And then the very next day, it went poof!
Of tropical birds and fierce animal life. the killer tiger. the cunning hyena. the deadly python that can crush a giant elk. the proud lion.
A fierce lioness stalking her pray to feed her young.
The battle was fierce.
The men were always strong and fierce and reckless.
The battle for Novorossiisk is getting fierce.
He sure sermonizes something fierce, doesn't he?
I'll lam into you something fierce when I get you in here next week!
And the battle was getting even more fierce.
He breathes loud and fierce.

News and current affairs

He could be a fierce turf fighter, yet it is fair to say that he could have fought harder for his moderate and dovish views in the post-1967 government in which he served.
The idea of normalizing relations with Israel has incited fierce hostility among some imams in the mosques as well as on the Internet.
So the fierce debate over whether to increase the size of American ground forces in Iraq is beside the point.
The rulings were met with fierce criticism by some journalists and politicians but were enthusiastically welcomed by others.
That sour sense of rejection, felt by many confused youths, turns for some into a fierce desire for vengeance.
The sharp tone and fierce partisanship of the past 13 years have been cast aside.
The US has experienced a fierce debate over bankruptcy reform, demonstrating that there is no simple answer to the appropriate design of bankruptcy law or regulation.
Allowing freer flows of people across borders would equalize opportunities even faster than trade, but resistance is fierce.
What incited such fierce sensitivity about GM foods?
As a result, the fierce and lively debate - in Turkey and much more emphatically in the EU - about whether Turkey really belongs to Europe has continued, despite the start of negotiations.
The most important concern public employment, pensions, labor legislation, and the length of the workweek, all of which generate fierce resistance.
Public debates across Eastern Europe soon started to exhibit a fierce confrontation between two different hidden memories: the memory of the Holocaust and that of the communist terror and crimes.
When competing in newly independent or developing countries, this ideological opposition became Manichean, fostering a fierce suspicion, if not outright rejection, of rival principles.
The race for national competitiveness is every bit as fierce as the competition among companies in the marketplace.
One day after Nicolae Ceausescu's execution, most of these people suddenly became fierce anticommunists and victims of the system they had served for decades.
Kazakhstan had lobbied for years for this opportunity in the face of fierce opposition from Britain and other EU countries.
Admittedly, the fierce popular backlash against Western media was partially motivated by nationalist ardor, which played into the government's hands.
Both the EU and Russia have advantages to offer, so competition between them could be fierce.
But that book's potency originally derived from its fierce independence from contemporary orthodoxies.
The policy was met with fierce opposition from the domestic cashew-processing industry, which had just been privatized.
Hence the fierce (albeit arcane and polite) dispute between the two sides at the International Monetary Fund's recent meeting in Lima, Peru.
Farmers are well organized politically, and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF) has been a fierce defender of agricultural protectionism.
After ten years of a large-scale repression, the fire, far from going out, is spreading, crossing borders, setting Northern Caucasus ablaze and making combatants even more fierce.
In parliamentary debates, fierce ideological battles may be the order of the day, but ad hominem attacks are off limits.
Neighboring Lebanon, with its fierce Sunni-Shia divide, is already being directly affected.

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