savage
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Definition of savage:
a member of an uncivilized people
a cruelly rapacious person attack brutally and fiercely criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage" (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" wild and menacing; "a pack of feral dogs" 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" marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle" |