noun
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An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian.
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A defiant person.
verb
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To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.
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No matter how anyone might savage me, I should stay strong.
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To criticise vehemently.
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His latest film was savaged by most reviewers.
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(of an animal) To attack with the teeth.
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To make savage.
adjective
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Wild; not cultivated.
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a savage wilderness
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Barbaric; not civilized.
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savage manners
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Fierce and ferocious.
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a savage spirit
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Brutal, vicious or merciless.
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He gave the dog a savage kick.
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Unpleasant or unfair.
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Great, brilliant, amazing.
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Although it didn't look very good, it tasted absolutely savage.
synonyms
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Nude; naked.
Examples of savage in a Sentence
In war, they were savage and cruel; for war always makes men so.
You know I always was a savage, and now am even more so.
One day word came that a savage wolf had been seen in the forest.
The banshee is perhaps connected with ancestral or house spirits; the Wild Huntsman, the Gabriel hounds, the Seven Whistlers, &c., are traceable to some actual phenomenon; but the great mass of British goblindom cannot now be traced back to savage or barbarous analogues.
The day passed in confused and savage scuffles between the raw enthusiasts of either side, but by 5.30 P.M.
It is still occupied by savage tribes.
And Robert the Bruce was never again obliged to hide in the woods or to run from savage hounds.
This was the period of those devastating raids which made the savage Magyar horsemen the scourge and the terror of Europe.
Elaborate rules are accordingly drawn up to secure the maximum of benefit, and the minimum of inconvenience, from this sacred fire; and in the application of these rules does savage casuistry consist.
While this opportunity of educating and training a docile people was in the main neglected, savage abuse of power by their chiefs was prevented.
A man who doesn't know Paris is a savage.
As if only the savage dwelt near enough to Nature and Truth to borrow a trope from them.
None of your savage brothers would properly complement such a beautiful little treasure, Romas, the woman had said with gentle humor.
Their conquests have extended as far as Niue, or Savage Island, 200 m.
Among the savage tribes of the interior there is scarcely any idea of God and their superstitious practices can scarcely be considered as the expression of a definite religious idea.
It suffered much in1865-1866from the savage struggle between Imperialists and Republicans, and in subsequent partisan warfare.
Among savage and nomadic nations the whole tribe often moves into new territory, either occupying it for the first time or exterminating or driving out the indigenous inhabitants.
That home was situated on the border of the Middlesex Fells, a rough and rocky woodland, 4000 acres in extent, as wild and savage in many places as the primeval forest.
But the most remarkable of the persons with whom at this time Johnson consorted was Richard Savage, an earl's son, a shoemaker's apprentice, who had seen life in all its forms, who had feasted among blue ribands in St James's Square, and had lain with fifty pounds weight of irons on his legs in the condemned ward of Newgate.
Savage and untameable mountaineers, they long defied the Roman arms and made themselves a name for wild freedom.
His sensitive harmony singing managed to soothe the savage beast for the next turn.
Emily would reprimand him, "No brother of mine will act like a savage."
In his private character Shane O'Neill was a brutal, uneducated savage.
In the 16th century Quercy was a stronghold of the Protestants, and the scene of a savage religious warfare.
Up to this time the history of the province is little else than a record of savage warfare with the Apaches, Seris, Yaquis and other tribes.
Against this savage background of the forest Parkman shows the rise, progress and dramatic termination of the colossal struggle between France and Great Britain for colonial empire.
The Semite or savage who sets up a sacred stone or Bethel believes indeed that a divine power or influence enters the stone and dwells in it, and he treats the stone as if it were the god, kisses it, anoints it with oil, feeds the god in it by pouring out over it the blood of victims slain.
The Totonacs inhabit northern Vera Cruz and speak a language related to that of the Mayas; the Tarascos form a small group living in Michoacan; the Matlanzingos, or Matlaltzincas, live near the Tarascos, the savage Apaches, a nomadic group of tribes ranging from Durango northward into the United States; the Opata-Pima group, inhabiting the western plateau region from Sonora and Chihuahua south to Guadalajara, is sometimes classed as a branch of the Nahuatlaca; the Seris, a very small family of savages, occupy Tiburon Island and the adjacent mainland of Sonora; and the Guaicuros, or Yumas, are to be found in the northern part of the peninsula of Lower California.
The native history of Mexico and Central America is entitled to more respect than the mere recollections of savage tribes.
They were a savage people, perhaps.
But, answers one, by merely paying this tax, the poor civilized man secures an abode which is a palace compared with the savage's.
The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.
At the moment when Vereshchagin fell and the crowd closed in with savage yells and swayed about him, Rostopchin suddenly turned pale and, instead of going to the back entrance where his carriage awaited him, went with hurried steps and bent head, not knowing where and why, along the passage leading to the rooms on the ground floor.
The top of international holiday insurance uk their prosperity or that savage holiday supplier towel specialties.
By the people of northern India the country was known as Gondwana, after the savage tribes of Gonds by whom it was inhabited.
Meanwhile the Jesuits undertook the moral and religious culture of the natives, and of the scarcely less savage colonists.
The " Savage Diet " which assembled on the 18th of October the same year, to punish the rebels and restore order, well deserved its name.
The savage reprisals on their suppression, in especial the "Bloody Assizes" of Jeffreys, produced a revulsion of public feeling.
Thus, for instance, in his account of the transition from savage to civilized life, he assumes at v.
To the savage, death from natural causes is inexplicable.
They now became almost savage.
He submitted to the influence of the rigorists, and carried forward the war upon heresy, though not with the savage vehemence of his predecessor.
The scenes of the recurrent wars were mostly distant from Massachusetts proper, either in Maine or on Canadian or Acadian territory, although some savage inroads of the Indians were now and then made on the exposed frontier towns, as, for instance, upon Deerfield in 1704 and upon Haverhill in 1708.
An account of savage life, therefore, includes the knowledge of the animal life of America and its distribution, regarding the continent, not only as a whole, but in those natural history provinces and migrations which governed and characterized the activities of the peoples.
To the north-west of Pinerolo, up the Chisone valley, there opens at Perosa Argentina the valley of St Martin, another important Waldensian valley, which is watered by the Germanasca torrent, and at Perrero splits into two branches, of which the Prali glen is far more fertile than that of Massello, the latter being the wildest and most savage of all the Waldensian valleys.
They were, as Milton said, " faithful and freeborn Englishmen and good Christians constrained to forsake their dearest home, their friends, and kindred, whom nothing but the wide ocean and the savage deserts of America could hide and shelter from the fury of the bishops."
Rarotonga and Mangaia, in the Cook group, and Niue or Savage Island are the largest of these; Penrhyn and Suwarrow, though but small coral atolls, contain excellent harbours.
Froude's temperament was sensitive, and he suffered from these attacks, which were often unjust and always too savage in tone.
In the first year of the 13th century, the Knights of the Sword, one of the numerous orders of crusading military monks, had been founded in Livonia to "convert" the pagan Letts, and, in 1208, the still more powerful Teutonic order was invited by Duke Conrad of Masovia to settle in the district of Kulm (roughly corresponding to modern East Prussia) to protect his territories against the incursions of the savage Prussians, a race closely akin to the Lithuanians.
The battle of Shiloh was a savage scuffle between two half-disciplined hosts, contested with a fury rare even in this war.