FEROCIOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ferociously mean? 

• FEROCIOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb FEROCIOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in a physically fierce manner

  Familiarity information: FEROCIOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEROCIOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a physically fierce manner

Synonyms:

ferociously; fiercely

Context example:

they fought fiercely

Pertainym:

ferocious (marked by extreme and violent energy)

 Context examples 

When the most massive stars explode as supernovas, they don't fade into the night, but sometimes glow ferociously with high-energy gamma rays.

(Pulse of a Dead Star Powers Intense Gamma Rays, NASA)

Men fight and struggle ferociously for one another’s lives.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He had no occasion, I thought, to cry out “Silence!” so ferociously, for the boys were all struck speechless and motionless.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He tried to growl threateningly, ferociously.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Human cooperation is crucial to honeyguides because bees’ nests are often hidden in inaccessible crevices high up in trees – and honeybees sting ferociously.

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

But more than once, stealing into the room, when it was her watch off, she would catch the two men glaring ferociously at each other, wild animals the pair of them, in Hans's face the lust to kill, in Dennin's the fierceness and savagery of the cornered rat.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

In return he feigned anger, bristling and growling ferociously, and clipping his teeth together in snaps that had all the seeming of deadly intention.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She sank her fangs into her mate's shoulder in reproof; and he, frightened, unaware of what constituted this new onslaught, struck back ferociously and in still greater fright, ripping down the side of the she-wolf's muzzle.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It freezes the water to prevent it running to the sea; it drives the sap out of the trees till they are frozen to their mighty hearts; and most ferociously and terribly of all does the Wild harry and crush into submission man—man who is the most restless of life, ever in revolt against the dictum that all movement must in the end come to the cessation of movement.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"We've got to beat them down," whispered Daisy, winking ferociously toward the fervent sun.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)