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nouna member of an uncivilized people
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"a savage people"adjectivewithout civilizing influences
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nouna cruelly rapacious person
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adjectivemarked by extreme and violent energy
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"a savage slap"adjective(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
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"The press savaged the new President"verbcriticize harshly or violentlytype of:
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adjectivewild and menacing
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verbattack brutally and fiercely
Definition that contains savage
- slaughter the savage and excessive killing of many people
- massacre the savage and excessive killing of many people
- brutality a brutal barbarous savage act
- okinawa a campaign in the closing days of World War II in the Pacific (April to June 1945); in savage close-quarter fighting United States marines and regular army troops took the island from the Japanese; considered the greatest victory of the Pacific campaign for the Americans
- berserk one of the ancient Norse warriors legendary for working themselves into a frenzy before a battle and fighting with reckless savagery and insane fury
- carnage the savage and excessive killing of many people
- barbarism a brutal barbarous savage act
- butchery the savage and excessive killing of many people
- barbarity a brutal barbarous savage act
- headhunter a savage who cuts off and preserves the heads of enemies as trophies