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savage
1[ sav-ij ]
adjective
- fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed:
savage beasts.
Synonyms: bloodthirsty, fell, feral, wild
Antonyms: mild
- Offensive. relating to or being a preliterate people or society regarded as uncivilized or primitive.
- enraged or furiously angry, as a person.
- unpolished; rude:
savage manners.
Antonyms: cultured
- wild or rugged, as country or scenery:
savage wilderness.
Synonyms: uncultivated, rough
Antonyms: cultivated
- Archaic. uncultivated; growing wild.
noun
verb (used with object)
- to assault and maul by biting, rending, goring, etc.; tear at or mutilate:
numerous sheep savaged by dogs.
- to attack or criticize thoroughly or remorselessly; excoriate:
a play savaged by the critics.
- to greatly weaken, damage, or harm:
The age of automation and globalization, with companies searching for lower wages overseas, has savaged organized labor.
Savage
2[ sav-ij ]
noun
- Michael Joseph, 1872–1940, New Zealand statesman and labor leader: prime minister 1935–40.
- Richard, 1697?–1743, English poet.
savage
1/ ˈsævɪdʒ /
adjective
- wild; untamed
savage beasts of the jungle
- ferocious in temper; vicious
a savage dog
- uncivilized; crude
savage behaviour
- (of peoples) nonliterate or primitive
a savage tribe
- (of terrain) rugged and uncultivated
- obsolete.far from human habitation
noun
- a member of a nonliterate society, esp one regarded as primitive
- a crude or uncivilized person
- a fierce or vicious person or animal
verb
- to criticize violently
- to attack ferociously and wound
the dog savaged the child
Savage
2/ ˈsævɪdʒ /
noun
- SavageMichael Joseph18721940MNew ZealandPOLITICS: statesmanPOLITICS: prime minister Michael Joseph. 1872-1940, New Zealand statesman; prime minister of New Zealand (1935-40)
Derived Forms
- ˈsavageness, noun
- ˈsavagedom, noun
- ˈsavagely, adverb
Other Words From
- sav·age·ly adverb
- sav·age·ness noun
- half-sav·age adjective
- half-sav·age·ly adverb
- pre·sav·age adjective
- qua·si-sav·age adjective
- qua·si-sav·age·ly adverb
- sem·i·sav·age adjective
- un·sav·age adjective
- un·sav·age·ly adverb
- un·sav·age·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of savage1
Word History and Origins
Origin of savage1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
There's a whole community out there rushing to find documents, disks, and hard drives from the '80s and '90s before they're savaged by time and bit rot.
A great country cannot allow people to come in and savage it, have no consequences, and then wait for the next attack.
I asked Savage to listen to “Sho Z-Pod Dupa” by DakhaBrakha to see where it fell on his universal scale.
On this level, Mankiewicz’s film is a masterwork of subversion, a precursor to films that savaged the American love affair with normalcy—“The Graduate,” “Blue Velvet,” “American Beauty,” and “Fight Club” among them.
Stephanopoulos is a TV newsman, and Savage is a sex columnist.
Bolstered by the momentum of Savage, Masters continued to accumulate up-and-coming conservative talent.
After two years, the dispute ended with an arbitration ruling in favor of Savage.
In a 2009 profile of the right-wing firebrand, The New Yorker called Savage “a heretic among heretics.”
In the midst of the Michael Savage drama, the Talk Radio Network empire entered into another major lawsuit.
Savage noted that “HIV/AIDS forced us to start talking about what people are doing in bed.”
Under so many savage blows, the labouring mountains brought forth Turks.
It makes out of the savage raw material which is our basal mental stuff, a citizen.
Yet a child coming under the humanising influences of culture soon gets far away from the level of the savage.
A primitive savage makes a bow and arrow in a day: it takes him a fortnight to make a bark canoe.
Savage troopers urged their horses into the water and slashed cowering women with their sabers.
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