Meaning of SAVAGE
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | 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 |
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| | 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 | |
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\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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