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A fierce storm battered the coast. {code: 'ad_topslot_a', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_topslot', adUnitPath: '/23202586/cdo_topslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[300, 50], [320, 50], [320, 100]] } }, fierce a term used in fashion for cool, sexy, awesome, or any other positive remark about something. iasLog("__tcfapi removeEventListener", success); priceGranularity: customGranularity, { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195451', size: [320, 50] }}, }); { bidder: 'openx', params: { unit: '539971079', delDomain: 'idm-d.openx.net' }}, Extremely powerful or destructive: a fierce storm; a fierce flood. { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '346688' }}, 'increment': 1, Original English sense of "brave, proud" died out 16c., but while this sense was current fierce often was used in English as an epithet (and thus surname), which accounts for the rare instance of a French word entering English in the nominative case. { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195451', size: [300, 250] }}, { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195451', size: [300, 50] }}, enableSendAllBids: false { bidder: 'appnexus', params: { placementId: '11654157' }}, googletag.pubads().set("page_url", "https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fierce"); When I think of fierce women, I think of Beyoncé, Rowan Blanchard, Yara Shahidi, Malala Yousafzai, and Megyn Kelly. 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