savage
IPA: sˈævʌdʒ
noun
- (derogatory) A person not living in a civilization; a barbarian.
- (figuratively) An aggressively defiant person.
- (slang) Someone who speaks in an audacious, hilarious, and often sarcastic manner.
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Howard County, Maryland.
- A suburban city in Scott County, Minnesota; suburb of Minneapolis.
- An unincorporated community in Tate County, Mississippi.
- An unincorporated community in Richland County, Montana.
verb
- To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.
- (figuratively) To criticise vehemently.
- (of an animal) To attack with the teeth.
- (obsolete, transitive) To make savage.
adjective
- Wild; not cultivated or tamed.
- Barbaric; not civilized.
- Primitive; lacking complexity or sophistication.
- Fierce and ferocious.
- Brutal, vicious, or merciless.
- (slang) Of an insult or person: disrespectful, audacious, and either blunt or sarcastic, in a hilarious way.
- (UK, slang) Unpleasant or unfair.
- (Ireland, US, slang) Great, brilliant, amazing.
- (US, slang) Severe, rude, aggressive.
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Examples of "savage" in Sentences
- Man eaters are savage and cruel.
- They're a bunch of savage cannibals.
- It is also much more savage and bestial.
- Camp Savage is the founding school of the.
- Clerics of Karaan are savage and depraved.
- The blacks are savage towards the Boervolk.
- Music has charms to soothe the savage beast.
- Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage.
- Maugham had savaged the school in Of Human Bondage.
- Presented as the most chaotic and savage of the Exalted.
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