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Meaning savage meaning

What does savage mean?

savage

— adjective (= barbarous, brutal, cruel, roughshod, 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 — noun a member of an uncivilized people — adjective (= feral) wild and menacing a pack of feral dogs — adjective (= barbarian, barbaric, uncivilized, 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 — verb (= crucify) criticize harshly or violently The press savaged the new President The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage — verb attack brutally and fiercely — noun (= beast) a cruelly rapacious person — adjective (= ferocious, fierce, furious) marked by extreme and violent energy a ferocious beating fierce fighting a furious battle

Synonyms savage synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as savage?

savage English » English

wild cruel brutal barbarian fierce ferocious barbarous uncivilized vicious violent barbaric atrocious furious feral wild man merciless brute untamed inhuman wicked uncivilized person ruthless harsh angry uncivilised rustic roughshod raging primitive person primitive ferine fell cruel person crude brutality aboriginal wolf wildcat villainous unruly unpolished truculent thug terror smashmouth ruthlessness rude fellow rude raw primordial

Topics savage topics

What do people use savage to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Violent
Person Healthy

Injure

Conjugation savage conjugation

How do you conjugate savage?

savage · verb

Examples savage examples

How do I use savage in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
There are still some savage tribes on that island.
The savage robbed me of my precious jewels and ran away.
Music has charms to soothe the savage beast.
Every savage can dance.
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast.
We were frightened by a savage scream.
They call themselves civilized, but they're just as savage as those they call barbarians.
They are much more savage than those they call barbarians.
Official Soviet propaganda called the Pentecostals 'savage sect'.

Movie subtitles

It's a tough proposition, girl, this pioneer life in the savage wilderness.
Kill it, as you would any savage animal.
Look at what a savage he is.
The beast of the jungle killing just for his existence is called savage.
I am afraid, like all my fellow countrymen, he is a bit of a savage.
I even tried to sink myself to the level of the savage.
And leave you here with that savage?
Morgan is a savage.
The crudest, savage, exhibition of nature at her worst, without, and we three, we elegant three, within.
He's too savage.
King Tynah, sir. A savage King.
It'll take us close to the most savage islands in these waters.
A charge you will see vanish into thin air here as the state, to cover up its own criminal negligence in not protecting this innocent man, proceeds in this savage attempt to kill as scapegoats these 22 bewildered souls.
The savage still rules the plains.
It's a tough proposition, girl, this pioneer life in a savage wilderness.
I got it from the nose of a savage.
I'm going to be a savage just like you.
I thought he was a savage.
A woman who's learned the abandon of a savage. yet she'd be at home in Mayfair.
You know, you're a fascinating little savage.
Music still hath charms to soothe the savage. but I know a greater fascination.
Only a savage would prefer this sort of thing.
Yes, but she's.she's.savage!
Si, senor, she a little bit savage, I think.
Preventing these young people from leaving. persecuting a dear and lovely girl like Thea. terrorizing her with your ugly, savage superstitions.
Hitler was a paranoid savage.
Quite savage, you know.
She's half savage. I popped a button. Go on, now.
He is a savage!
He must have been a terrible savage.
This may be too savage.
Aren't you ashamed of behaving like a savage?

News and current affairs

But abundant psychological evidence has now shown that people do not satisfy Savage's axioms of rationality.
His novel Autumn of the Patriarch captures perfectly the moral squalor, political paralysis, and savage ennui that enshrouds a society awaiting the death of a long-term dictator.
It is easy to predict that Sarajevo will be the place where they will meet to look back on Europe's savage twentieth century.
They were savage colonial conflicts under the Czar and almost genocidal under Stalin, who deported the whole Chechen population, a third of which perished during their transfer to the Gulag.
Even though some football games have provoked violence, and in one case even a war, they might have served the positive purpose of containing our more savage impulses by deflecting them onto a mere sport.
The fundamental problem consists in an existential struggle between utterly dysfunctional states and an obscenely savage brand of theocratic fanaticism.
In fact, to compare Merah's savage deeds to the killings of September 11, 2001, as Sarkozy has done, is to give the killer too much credit.
It can be applied with care in areas where the consequences of violating Savage's axiom are not too severe.
In Medvedev's mental universe, savage reprisals today will somehow turn the North Caucasus into a zone of international ski tourism tomorrow.
Thus, Hirohito might have been seeking to express his view that Japan should avoid a war with the US, especially given that the country had been fighting a savage and unsuccessful war of conquest in China for more than four years.

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