Unscramble savages

Definition of savage

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.
• wild and menacing; "a pack of feral dogs". Synonyms: feral, ferine.
• without civilizing influences; ; ; ; -Margaret Meade; "barbarian invaders", "barbaric practices", "a savage people", "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient", "wild tribes". Synonyms: barbarian, barbaric, uncivilised, uncivilized, wild.
• marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating", "fierce fighting", "a furious battle". Synonyms: ferocious, fierce, furious.

noun:

• a member of an uncivilized people. Synonyms: barbarian.
• a cruelly rapacious person. Synonyms: beast, brute, wildcat, wolf.

verb:

• attack brutally and fiercely.
• criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President", "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage". Synonyms: blast, crucify, pillory.

Related words

anthropophagite, anthropophagus, cannibal, headhunter.

Words nearby

gavage, lavage, pavage, ravage, salvage.