savage
6 definitions found
savage - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Savage \Sav"age\ (?; 48), a. [F. sauvage, OF. salvage, fr. L.
silvaticus belonging to a wood, wild, fr. silva a wood. See
Silvan, and cf. Sylvatic.]
1. Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes
and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage
wilderness.
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2. Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts.
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Cornels, and savage berries of the wood. --Dryden.
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3. Uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life;
savage manners.
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What nation, since the commencement of the Christian
era, ever rose from savage to civilized without
Christianity? --E. D.
Griffin.
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4. Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious;
inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit.
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Syn: Ferocious; wild; uncultivated; untamed; untaught;
uncivilized; unpolished; rude; brutish; brutal;
heathenish; barbarous; cruel; inhuman; fierce; pitiless;
merciless; unmerciful; atrocious. See Ferocious.
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Savage \Sav"age\, n.
1. A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is
untaught, uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or
manners.
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2. A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian.
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Savage \Sav"age\ (?; 48), v. t.
To make savage. [R.]
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Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf. --Southey.
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savage - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
savage
adj 1: (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" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell,
roughshod, savage, vicious]
2: wild and menacing; "a pack of feral dogs" [syn: feral,
ferine, savage]
3: 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" [syn: barbarian,
barbaric, savage, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild]
4: marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating";
"fierce fighting"; "a furious battle" [syn: ferocious,
fierce, furious, savage]
n 1: a member of an uncivilized people [syn: savage,
barbarian]
2: a cruelly rapacious person [syn: beast, wolf, savage,
brute, wildcat]
v 1: attack brutally and fiercely
2: criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new
President"; "The critics crucified the author for
plagiarizing a famous passage" [syn: savage, blast,
pillory, crucify]
savage - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :
Savage, MD
Zip code(s): 20763
Savage, MN (city, FIPS 58738)
Location: 44.75538 N, 93.35724 W
Population (1990): 9906 (3395 housing units)
Area: 41.2 sq km (land), 1.6 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 55378
Savage, MS
Zip code(s): 38665
Savage, MT
Zip code(s): 59262
savage - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
379 Moby Thesaurus words for "savage":
Draconian, Goth, Gothic, Mafioso, Neanderthal, Tartarean,
Young Turk, abrade, abuse, afflict, aggressive, aggrieve, agonize,
animal, antagonistic, anthropophagite, anthropophagous, assault,
atrocious, attack, baneful, barbarian, barbaric, barbarize,
barbarous, bark, batter, battling, beast, beastly, befoul, beldam,
bellicose, belligerent, berserk, berserker, bestial, bewitch,
blemish, blight, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, bomber,
break, bruise, brutal, brutalize, brutalized, brute, brutish,
buffet, burn, butcher, cannibal, cannibalistic, carry on, chafe,
chauvinist, chauvinistic, check, chip, claw, coldhearted,
combative, condemn, contentious, convulse, corrupt, crack, craze,
crucify, cruel, cruel-hearted, curse, cut, damage, deadly,
death-bringing, deathful, deathly, defile, demon, demoniac,
demoniacal, demonic, deprave, despoil, destroy, destroyer,
destructive, devil, devilish, diabolic, disadvantage, disserve,
distress, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do violence to, do wrong,
do wrong by, do wrong to, doom, dragon, enemy, enraged, envenom,
excruciate, fatal, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiend, fiendish,
fiendlike, fierce, fighting, fighting mad, fire-eater, firebrand,
fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, full of fight, fuming, furious,
fury, gall, gash, get into trouble, go on, goon, gorilla, grim,
gunsel, hammer, harass, hardnose, harm, harrow, harsh, hawkish,
heartless, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, hellish, hex,
holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hopping mad, hostile, hothead, hotspur,
hurt, hyena, ill-bred, ill-treat, ill-use, impair, impale,
implacable, impolite, in a rage, incendiary, incise, infect,
infernal, infuriate, infuriated, inhuman, inhumane, inimical,
injure, internecine, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, jinx,
kill by inches, kill-crazy, killer, killing, knock about, lacerate,
lancinate, lay waste, lethal, loot, macerate, mad dog, madcap,
maim, make mincemeat of, malign, malignant, maltreat, man-eater,
manhandle, martial, martyr, martyrize, maul, menace, merciless,
militant, militaristic, military, mishandle, mistreat, molest,
monster, mortal, mug, mugger, murderous, mutilate, nihilist,
noncivilized, offensive, outlandish, outrage, pernicious,
persecute, pierce, pillage, pitiless, play havoc with,
play hob with, poison, pollute, prejudice, primeval, primitive,
pugnacious, puncture, punish, quarrelsome, rabid, rack, rage,
raging, ramp, rampage, rant, ranting, rapacious, rape, rapist,
rave, ravenous, raving, raving mad, relentless, rend,
revolutionary, riot, rip, roar, roaring mad, rough, rough up,
rough-and-ready, rude, rugged, ruin, run, rupture, ruthless,
saber-rattling, sack, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic,
scald, scarify, scathe, scorch, scotch, scrape, scrappy, scratch,
scuff, shark, sharkish, she-wolf, skin, slash, slaughter,
slavering, slit, soldierlike, soldierly, sow chaos, spitfire,
sprain, stab, stick, storm, storming, strain, subhuman, taint,
tameless, tear, tear around, termagant, terror, terrorist,
terrorize, threaten, tiger, tigress, torment, torture, tough,
tough guy, traumatize, trigger-happy, troglodyte, troglodytic,
truculent, ugly customer, unbroken, unchristian, uncivil,
uncivilized, uncombed, uncontrolled, uncouth, uncultivated,
uncultured, undomesticated, unfriendly, ungentle, unhuman, unkempt,
unlicked, unmerciful, unpacific, unpeaceful, unpolished, unrefined,
unrelenting, unsubdued, untamed, vandal, vandalize, vicious,
violate, violent, virago, virulent, vixen, voracious, warlike,
warmongering, warring, wild, wild beast, wild man, witch, wolf,
wolfish, wound, wreak havoc on, wreck, wrecker, wrench, wring,
wrong
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