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savage   (TTS Sound)

The noun savage has 2 senses

• savage, barbarian -- (a member of an uncivilized people)


• beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat -- (a cruelly rapacious person)

The verb savage has 2 senses

• savage -- (attack brutally and fiercely)


• savage, blast, pillory, crucify -- (criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage")

The adj savage has 4 senses

• barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious -- ((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")


• feral, ferine, savage -- (wild and menacing; "a pack of feral dogs")


• barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild -- (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")


• ferocious, fierce, furious, savage -- (marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle")