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savage

• (s) (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
  barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, vicious, roughshod,
• (s) wild and menacing
  • a pack of feral dogs
  feral, ferine,
• (s) 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
  barbarian, barbaric, uncivilised, uncivilized, wild,
• (s) marked by extreme and violent energy
  • a ferocious beating
  • fierce fighting
  • a furious battle
  ferocious, fierce, furious,

Nouns

• (n) a member of an uncivilized people barbarian,
• (n) a cruelly rapacious person brute, beast, wildcat, wolf,

Verbs

• (v) attack brutally and fiercely
• (v) criticize harshly or violently
  • The press savaged the new President
  • The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage
  pillory, crucify, blast,

Synonyms

barbarian barbarous brutal cruel fell vicious roughshod feral ferine brute beast wildcat wolf pillory crucify blast barbaric uncivilised uncivilized wild ferocious fierce furious

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