savage
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/sav"ij/,
adj., n., v., savaged, savaging.
adj.
1. fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed: savage beasts.
2. uncivilized; barbarous: savage tribes.
3. enraged or furiously angry, as a person.
4. unpolished; rude: savage manners.
5. wild or rugged, as country or scenery: savage wilderness.
6. Archaic. uncultivated; growing wild.
n.
7. an uncivilized human being.
8. a fierce, brutal, or cruel person.
9. a rude, boorish person.
10. a member of a preliterate society.
v.t.
11. to assault and maul by biting, rending, goring, etc.; tear at or mutilate: numerous sheep savaged by dogs.
12. to attack or criticize thoroughly or remorselessly; excoriate: a play savaged by the critics.
[
1250-1300; ME savage, sauvage (adj.) < MF sauvage, salvage < ML salvaticus, for L silvaticus, equiv. to silv(a) woods + -aticus adj. suffix]
Syn. 1. wild, feral, fell; bloodthirsty. See
cruel. 2. wild.
3. infuriated.
5. rough, uncultivated.
9. churl, oaf.
Ant. 1. mild.
2, 4. cultured.
5. cultivated.
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