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savage

savage (third-person singular simple present savages, present participle savaging, simple past and past participle savaged) (transitive)

1. To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.
2. (figuratively) To criticise vehemently.

   His latest film was savaged by most reviewers.

3. (of an animal) To attack with the teeth

savage (plural savages)

1. (pejorative) An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian.
   • 1847, Benjamin Disraeli, Tancred: or The New Crusade, page 251

     Well, my lord, I dont know, said Freeman with a sort of jolly sneer; we have been dining with the savages.
     They are not savages, Freeman.
     Well, my lord, they have not much more clothes, anyhow; and as for knives and forks, there is not such a thing known.

2. (figuratively) A defiant person.

savage (comparative more savage, superlative most savage)

1. wild; not cultivated
2. barbaric; not civilized
   • 1719- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

     ...I observed a place where there had been a fire made, and a circle dug in the earth, like a cockpit, where I supposed the savage wretches had sat down to their human feastings upon the bodies of their fellow-creatures.

3. fierce and ferocious
4. brutal, vicious, or merciless

   The woman was killed in a savage manner.

5. (UK, slang) unpleasant or unfair

   Ill see you in detention.

   Ah, savage!

Definizione dizionario savage

	crudele
	fierce and ferocious
	Brutal, vicious or merciless

	selvaggio
	Wild, not cultivated
	Barbaric, not civilized

	feroce
	fierce and ferocious
	Marked by extreme and violent energy.

	brutale
	fierce and ferocious

	impietoso
	Brutal, vicious or merciless

	primitivo
	Barbaric, not civilized

arrabbiato

atroce

barbaro

belluino

efferato

furioso

incivile

selvatico

truce

Altri significati:

To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint

A person living an uncivilized life, in an original state viewed from a standpoint of the development of mankind from their infestation til today, having had no education in the narrow sense of modern civilisation's education.

barbaric; not civilized

To attack with the teeth

Living outside of civilized societies

(pejorative) An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian.

To criticise vehemently

savage (primitive) people (race)

wild; not cultivated

To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.

(figuratively) To criticise vehemently.

(figuratively) A defiant person.

(of an animal) To attack with the teeth

brutal, vicious, or merciless

uncivilized or feral person