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Savage   /sˈævədʒ/  /sˈævɪdʒ/   Listen
adjective
Savage  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.
2.
Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts. "Cornels, and savage berries of the wood."
3.
Uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life; savage manners. "What nation, since the commencement of the Christian era, ever rose from savage to civilized without Christianity?"
4.
Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit.
Synonyms: Ferocious; wild; uncultivated; untamed; untaught; uncivilized; unpolished; rude; brutish; brutal; heathenish; barbarous; cruel; inhuman; fierce; pitiless; merciless; unmerciful; atrocious. See Ferocious.


noun
Savage  n.  
1.
A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is untaught, uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners.
2.
A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian.


verb
Savage  v. t.  To make savage. (R.) "Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf."





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"Savage" Quotes from Famous Books



... far cry from the savage mother, beating back some beast of the jungle or the plain, to the modern mother whose physical protection and that of her children is amply provided not alone by the husband and father concerned but by organized society with its police ...
— The Family and it's Members • Anna Garlin Spencer
... that from the poorest and crudest beginnings, morality is the massing of interests against a reluctant cosmos. Life has been attended with discord and mutual {15} destruction, but this is its failure. The first grumbling truce between savage enemies, the first collective enterprise, the first peaceful community, the first restraint on gluttony for the sake of health, the first suppression of ferocity for the sake of a harder blow struck in cold blood,—these ...
— The Moral Economy • Ralph Barton Perry
... drive a deacon to swearin'. It's been nothin' but nag, nag, nag, fight, fight, fight ever since this cruise started. If—if we row like this afore we're married what'll it be afterwards? Talk about bein' independent! Git dap there!" this a savage roar at George Washington, who had stopped again. "I do believe the ...
— Thankful's Inheritance • Joseph C. Lincoln
... Mr. Arbuton heard one of the boat's officers saying to the gentleman with the ex-military air, who stood next him beside the rail; and now, the band having drawn aside, he saw the bride and groom,—the latter a common, stolid-faced savage, and the former pretty and almost white, with a certain modesty and sweetness of mien. Before them went a young American, with a jaunty Scotch cap and a visage of supernatural gravity, as the master of ceremonies which he had probably planned; arm ...
— A Chance Acquaintance • W. D. Howells
... said, in cockney dialect, "that I never shall be obliged to earn my living in a country vare the spiders are as big as a 'at, and as savage as a bull dog—vare snakes crawl into bed vith yer, and drive yer out—and vare the inhabitants had rather tell a lie than the truth. I'm going 'ome to Hingland, and those vot vant gold may come 'ere and dig it if they ...
— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes


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