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Definition of Ferocious

Ferocious

  1. Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion.

Ferocious Quotations

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
Henry David Thoreau

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
Voltaire

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James A. Baldwin

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
Ovid

Barack Obama is many things; among them, he is a tough and even ferocious political warrior.
Jon Meacham
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Ferocious Translations

ferocious in Norwegian is glupsk, vill
ferocious in Swedish is rovlysten, ilsken

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