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fierceness

/feers/US // fɪərs //UK // (fɪəs) //

烈性,猛烈,凶猛,激烈

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    fierc·er, fierc·est.

    • : menacingly wild, savage, or hostile: fierce animals; a fierce look.
    • : violent in force, intensity, etc.: fierce winds.
    • : furiously eager or intense: fierce competition.
    • : Informal. extremely bad or severe: a fierce cold.

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Examples

  • This division has made partisan fights about Covid-19 especially fierce and consequential, particularly between Democratic leaders, including Evers, and Republican leaders in charge of the state’s Assembly and Senate.

  • We have to learn to hear criticism and fierce debate without thinking it’s a bad thing but rather could lead to compromise and consensus.

  • An advocate of progressive, socially-minded economic policies, Reich is a fierce critic of unfettered free-market capitalism, which he believes has yielded the heightened economic inequality plaguing the United States today.

  • If he’s successful, HBO Max’s competition will become even fiercer.

  • Airborne transmission has become a topic of fierce contention, partly because it makes it far riskier to reopen spaces like restaurants, gyms, bars, schools, and offices.

  • The local police have praised the women for fighting back and said their fierceness kept the assaults from moving further.

  • I asked Tsukerman why the 1980s were back with such fierceness, and why all of these remakes were being made.

  • At Wimbledon a few years back, I was struck again by the fierceness of their presence, both on and off the court.

  • I loved how I could hear that fierceness in tone in advance of literal understanding.

  • With time, the fierceness and the collective sweetness that underscored it grew more intelligible.

  • On his loins was a lion of great fierceness, and coiled round his waist was a hissing mamba (snake).

  • Upon her Kerry directed a look from which all fierceness had been effaced, and which expressed only an undying admiration.

  • There was a startling fierceness in the voice of the trooper that reached to the heart, even amid the horrors of the cottage.

  • Moore, we are told by Napier, "maintained the right with vehemence bordering upon fierceness."

  • On top of all a huge fire was built, and maintained with great fierceness for about two hours.