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Definition of savage
- a cruelly rapacious person
- a member of an uncivilized people
- criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"
- attack brutally and fiercely
- 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"
- (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"
- wild and menacing; "a ferocious dog"
- marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle"
Hyponyms: cannibal, man-eater, anthropophagus, anthropophagite, headhunter, head-shrinker, hunter-gatherer, Vandal, Odoacer, Odovacar, Odovakar
Derivational Morphology: beast, wolf, brute, wildcat, brutality, barbarity, barbarism, savagery
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