Word.ws English Dictionary

fiercen

Syllables: fierc·enUK/ˈfɪəsən/US/ˈfɪəɹsən/

fiercen verb: to make fierce.

Verb

fiercen (third-person singular simple present fiercens, present participle fiercening, simple past and past participle fiercened)

  1. (transitive) To make fierce.
    1. (dialectal, transitive) To enliven.
  2. (intransitive) To become or grow fierce.

Forms of fiercen

third-person singular presentfiercens
present participlefiercening
past participlefiercened
pastfiercened

Origin of fiercen

From fierce + -en.

Words formed from fiercen

Questions about fiercen

What does fiercen mean?
Fiercen means to make fierce.
What part of speech is fiercen?
Fiercen is a verb.
How do you pronounce fiercen?
Fiercen is pronounced /ˈfɪəsən/ (UK).
What is the past tense of fiercen?
The past tense of fiercen is fiercened.

Words near fiercen in the dictionary

  1. fierce snake
  2. fierce snakes
  3. fiercelier
  4. fierceliest
  5. fiercely
  6. fiercen
  7. fiercen up
  8. fiercened
  9. fierceness
  10. fiercenesses
  11. fiercening

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fiercen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “fiercen.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/fiercen. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.