feral

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Our laserchicken contingent probably received the most substantive overhaul of all three specs heading into the expansion, and Our assessment of the feral is here and includes a look at Blizzard's effort to split the tree into bear-centric and cat-centric talents.

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  1. adjective Existing in a wild or untamed state.
  2. adjective Having returned to an untamed state from domestication.
  3. adjective Of or suggestive of a wild animal; savage: a feral grin.

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  • But they encountered nothing worse than dogs going feral, and Pe-atep's memory was quite correct. —  Aerie
  • But the dogs around here had gone thoroughly feral, and were not approaching humans. —  Aerie
  • Although the face had a feral, animalistic look to it, the eyes revealed intelligence. —  Armageddon's Children
  • The foul stench coming from him had turned him feral, and there was a look of madness in his eyes that Rock could appreciate. —  Floating City
  • Our laserchicken contingent probably received the most substantive overhaul of all three specs heading into the expansion, and Our assessment of the feral is here and includes a look at Blizzard's effort to split the tree into bear-centric and cat-centric talents. —  WoW.com
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. From Latin fera, wild animal, from ferus, wild; see ghwer- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin fera, a wild animal, a wild beast (see feræ), + -al.
  2. = Spanish Portuguese feral = Italian ferale, from Latin feralis, of or belonging to the dead, funereal, deadly, fatal, from ferre, = English bear, in reference to the carrying of the dead in funeral procession; cf. English bier, ult. from bear.
 

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/ˈfirəl/
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