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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a member of an uncivilized people;
[syn: savage, barbarian]

2. a cruelly rapacious person;
[syn: beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat]


VERB (2)

1. attack brutally and fiercely;

2. criticize harshly or violently;
- Example: "The press savaged the new President"
- Example: "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"
[syn: savage, blast, pillory, crucify]


ADJECTIVE (4)

1. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering;
- Example: "a barbarous crime"
- Example: "brutal beatings"
- Example: "cruel tortures"
- Example: "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"
- Example: "a savage slap"
- Example: "vicious kicks"
[syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious]

2. wild and menacing;
- Example: "a pack of feral dogs"
[syn: feral, ferine, savage]

3. without civilizing influences;
- Example: "barbarian invaders"
- Example: "barbaric practices"
- Example: "a savage people"
- Example: "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade
- Example: "wild tribes"
[syn: barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild]

4. marked by extreme and violent energy;
- Example: "a ferocious beating"
- Example: "fierce fighting"
- Example: "a furious battle"
[syn: ferocious, fierce, furious, savage]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Savage \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.
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   2. A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Savage \Sav"age\ (?; 48), v. t.
   To make savage. [R.]
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         Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf. --Southey.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Savage \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.
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   2. Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts.
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            Cornels, and savage berries of the wood. --Dryden.
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   3. Uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life;
      savage manners.
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            What nation, since the commencement of the Christian
            era, ever rose from savage to civilized without
            Christianity?                         --E. D.
                                                  Griffin.
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   4. Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious;
      inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit.
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   Syn: Ferocious; wild; uncultivated; untamed; untaught;
        uncivilized; unpolished; rude; brutish; brutal;
        heathenish; barbarous; cruel; inhuman; fierce; pitiless;
        merciless; unmerciful; atrocious. See Ferocious.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

savage
    adj 1: (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" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell,
           roughshod, savage, vicious]
    2: wild and menacing; "a pack of feral dogs" [syn: feral,
       ferine, savage]
    3: 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" [syn: barbarian,
       barbaric, savage, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild]
    4: marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating";
       "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle" [syn: ferocious,
       fierce, furious, savage]
    n 1: a member of an uncivilized people [syn: savage,
         barbarian]
    2: a cruelly rapacious person [syn: beast, wolf, savage,
       brute, wildcat]
    v 1: attack brutally and fiercely
    2: criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new
       President"; "The critics crucified the author for
       plagiarizing a famous passage" [syn: savage, blast,
       pillory, crucify]