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Savage

Savage Meaning & Definition
Savage Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Savage?

[n] a cruelly rapacious person
[n] a member of an uncivilized people
[adj] without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes"
[adj] (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"
[adj] wild and menacing; "a ferocious dog"
[adj] marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle"
[v] criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"
[v] attack brutally and fiercely

Synonyms | Synonyms for Savage: barbarian | barbarian | barbaric | barbarous | beast | brutal | brute | crucify | cruel | fell | feral | ferocious | fierce | furious | inhumane | noncivilised | noncivilized | pillory | roughshod | uncivilised | uncivilized | untamed | vicious | violent | wild | wildcat | wolf

Related Terms | Find terms related to Savage:

See Also | aggressor | anthropophagite | anthropophagus | assail | assailant | assault | assaulter | attack | attacker | cannibal | criticise | criticize | headhunter | head-shrinker | hunter-gatherer | man-eater | Odoacer | Odovacar | Odovakar | pick apart | primitive | primitive person | set on | Vandal

Savage In Webster's Dictionary

\Sav"age\ (?; 48), a. [F. sauvage, OF. salvage, fr. L. silvaticus belonging to a wood, wild, fr. silva a wood. See {Silvan}, and cf. {Sylvatic}.] 1. Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness. 2. Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts. Cornels, and savage berries of the wood. --Dryden. 3. Uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life; savage manners. What nation, since the commencement of the Christian era, ever rose from savage to civilized without Christianity? --E. D. Griffin. 4. Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit. Syn: Ferocious; wild; uncultivated; untamed; untaught; uncivilized; unpolished; rude; brutish; brutal; heathenish; barbarous; cruel; inhuman; fierce; pitiless; merciless; unmerciful; atrocious. See {Ferocious}.
\Sav"age\, n. 1. A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is untaught, uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners. 2. A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian.
\Sav"age\ (?; 48), v. t. To make savage. [R.] Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf. --Southey.

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