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Meaning of savage

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  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}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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