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Savage
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- 1 Wild; not cultivated or tamed.
"a savage wilderness"
- 2 Barbaric; not civilized.
"savage manners"
- 3 Primitive; lacking complexity or sophistication.
- 4 Fierce and ferocious.
"savage beasts"
- 5 Brutal, vicious, or merciless.
"He gave the dog a savage kick."
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- 6 Of an insult or person: disrespectful, audacious, and either blunt or sarcastic, in a hilarious way. slang
"Wow, that was a savage burn. Absolutely no chill."
- 7 Unpleasant or unfair. UK, slang
"– I'll see you in detention. – Ah, savage!"
- 8 Great, brilliant, amazing. Ireland, US, slang
- 9 Severe, rude, aggressive. US, slang
"– They were so savage to them!"
- 1 without civilizing influences wordnet
- 2 (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering wordnet
- 3 wild and menacing wordnet
- 4 marked by extreme and violent energy wordnet
- 1 A surname.
- 2 An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Howard County, Maryland.
- 3 A suburban city in Scott County, Minnesota; a suburb of Minneapolis.
- 4 An unincorporated community in Tate County, Mississippi.
- 5 An unincorporated community in Richland County, Montana.
- 1 A person not living in a civilization; a barbarian. derogatory, historical
"'Well, my lord, I don't know,' said Freeman with a sort of jolly sneer; 'we have been dining with the savages.' 'They are not savages, Freeman.' 'Well, my lord, they have not much more clothes, anyhow; and as for knives and forks, there is not such a thing known.'"
- 2 a cruelly rapacious person wordnet
- 3 An aggressively defiant person. figuratively
"Their kids are little savages! One of them bit me the other day."
- 4 a member of an uncivilized people wordnet
- 5 Someone who speaks in an audacious, hilarious, and often sarcastic manner. slang
"It was on Dec. 29 that TikTok star Liv Pearsall posted a video titled "7 Times Elmo Was an Absolute Savage," in which the star with more than 2.7 million followers lip-synced to various Elmo-ments."
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- 6 A wild and ferocious beast. obsolete
"The torch-eyed ſavage, with growl tremendous, riſing up, diſlocated at one blow the arched neck of Sadit's Arabian ſteed, and brought the unfortunate omrah to the duſt, expiring between his extended claws."
- 1 To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint. transitive
"No matter how anyone might savage me, I should stay strong."
- 2 criticize harshly or violently wordnet
- 3 To criticise vehemently. figuratively, transitive
"His latest film was savaged by most reviewers."
- 4 attack brutally and fiercely wordnet
- 5 To attack with the teeth. transitive
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- 6 To make savage. obsolete, transitive
"Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf."
Etymology
From Middle English savage, from Old French sauvage, salvage (“wild, untamed”), from Late Latin salvāticus, alteration of Latin silvāticus (“wild”, literally “of the woods”), from silva (“forest; grove”). Doublet of sylvatic.
From Middle English savage, from Old French sauvage, salvage (“wild, untamed”), from Late Latin salvāticus, alteration of Latin silvāticus (“wild”, literally “of the woods”), from silva (“forest; grove”). Doublet of sylvatic.
From Middle English savage, from Old French sauvage, salvage (“wild, untamed”), from Late Latin salvāticus, alteration of Latin silvāticus (“wild”, literally “of the woods”), from silva (“forest; grove”). Doublet of sylvatic.
* As an English surname of Norman origin, from the adjective savage. Compare Sauvage. * As an Irish surname, from ó Sabháin, also Anglicized as O'Savin; see Savin. * As a Jewish and Slavic surname, Americanized from Savich, Serbo-Croatian Savić. See Savic.
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