10 Synonyms & Antonyms For FERAL

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  • Definitions feral [feer-uhl, fer-] / ˈfɪər əl, ˈfɛr- / ADJECTIVE untamed Synonyms STRONGEST ferocious WEAK animal brutal fierce raging savage tameless uncultivated undomesticated wild

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    The sweet, slightly feral smell of soil shrugging off ice.

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    For example, non-native feral hogs are now major predators of loggerhead sea turtle eggs along the Georgia coast, USA, while coyotes in eastern North America are expanding onto coastal barrier islands, altering those ecosystems.

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    Brat Summer still lives on in its feral children.

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    Mitigating, James Scobie KC said his client had been brought up with very little education and had lived "a pretty feral existence from a young age in which fast cars were very much his life".

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    Arnold said none of her other cats has shown the same interest in the Roomba, though a feral orange cat named Garfield that joined the family last year is expressing some curiosity.

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    animal beastlike beastly bestial brute brutal ferocious fierce fiercest more brutal ruthless savage savage soulless undomesticated untamed wilder wildest wild

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