ferocious
adjective/fəˈroʊʃəs/
Frequency rank: #10,489 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
Savagely fierce, violent, or intense.
Example sentence
The hikers were terrified when they encountered ferocious wolves on the mountain trail.
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