Savage - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- a cruelly rapacious person (syn: beast, brute, wildcat, wolf)
verb
- criticize harshly or violently (syn: blast, crucify, pillory)
adjective
- without civilizing influences (syn: barbarian, barbaric, uncivilized, wild)
Extra examples
He was the victim of a savage attack.
The coast was lashed by savage storms.
He wrote savage satires about people he didn't like.
What kind of savage could have committed such a terrible crime?
...what kind of savage would hurt a baby?
The show had already been savaged by critics.
The dog then turned on him and he was savaged to death.
The government has announced savage cuts in spending.
• a savage tribe
He was savagely attacked and beaten.
The Prime Minister was savaged by the press for failing to take action quickly enough.
The press savaged the new President
They were attacked by a savage beast.
...the noble savage was a stereotype that appealed to 18th-century intellectuals, who viewed European civilization as decadent and corrupt...
The strange and abnormal habits of certain savage tribes were noticed.
Word forms
I/you/we/they: savage
he/she/it: savages
present participle: savaging
past tense: savaged
past participle: savaged
singular: savage
plural: savages
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