savage
adjective
- 1
without civilizing influences
barbarian invaders
barbaric practices
- 2
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
a barbarous crime
brutal beatings
- 3
wild and menacing
a pack of feral dogs
- 4
marked by extreme and violent energy
a ferocious beating
fierce fighting
noun
- 1
a cruelly rapacious person
- 2
a member of an uncivilized people
verb
- 1
criticize harshly or violently
The press savaged the new President
The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage
- 2
attack brutally and fiercely
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