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SAVAGE

Definition:

[noun] a member of an uncivilized people
Synonyms: barbarian
[noun] a cruelly rapacious person
Synonyms: beast, wolf, brute, wildcat
[verb] attack brutally and fiercely
[verb] criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"
Synonyms: pillory, crucify
[adjective] (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"
Synonyms: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, vicious
[adjective] wild and menacing; "a ferocious dog"
Synonyms: feral, ferine
[adjective] 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"
Synonyms: barbarian, barbaric, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild
[adjective] marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle"
Synonyms: ferocious, fierce, furious