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English to English adjective
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Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
| 2 |
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | | Example: a barbarous crime
brutal beatings
cruel tortures
Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks
a savage slap
vicious kicks
source: wordnet30
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wild and menacing | | Example: a pack of feral dogs
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without civilizing influences | | Example: barbarian invaders
barbaric practices
a savage people
fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient
wild tribes
source: wordnet30
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marked by extreme and violent energy | | Example: a ferocious beating
fierce fighting
a furious battle
source: wordnet30 noun
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a member of an uncivilized people | | source: wordnet30
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a cruelly rapacious person | | source: wordnet30
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A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is untaught, uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners. | | source: webster1913 verb
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attack brutally and fiercely | | source: wordnet30
| 10 |
criticize harshly or violently | | Example: The press savaged the new President
The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage
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To make savage. | | source: webster1913
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