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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024sav•age /ˈsævɪdʒ/USA pronunciation adj., n., v., -aged, -ag•ing. adj. - fierce or ferocious;
wild:a savage criticism of her book. - uncivilized;
barbarous:savage people in the interior.
n. [countable] - an uncivilized human being.
- a fierce, brutal, or cruel person:Those savages have murdered innocent children.
v. [~ + object] - to assault brutally:The dog savaged the child's arm.
- to criticize harshly or without stopping:The president savaged her opponents.
sav•age•ly, adv.: The armies attacked the position savagely. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024sav•age (sav′ij),USA pronunciation adj., n., v., -aged, -ag•ing. adj. - fierce, ferocious, or cruel;
untamed:savage beasts. - uncivilized;
barbarous:savage tribes. - enraged or furiously angry, as a person.
- unpolished;
rude:savage manners. - wild or rugged, as country or scenery:savage wilderness.
- [Archaic.]uncultivated;
growing wild.
n. - an uncivilized human being.
- a fierce, brutal, or cruel person.
- a rude, boorish person.
- a member of a preliterate society.
v.t. - to assault and maul by biting, rending, goring, etc.;
tear at or mutilate:numerous sheep savaged by dogs. - to attack or criticize thoroughly or remorselessly;
excoriate:a play savaged by the critics.
- Medieval Latin salvāticus, for Latin silvāticus, equivalent. to silv(a) woods + -āticus adjective, adjectival suffix
- Middle French sauvage, salvage
- Middle English savage, sauvage (adjective, adjectival) 1250–1300
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged wild, feral, fell; bloodthirsty. See cruel.
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged wild.
- 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged infuriated.
- 5.See corresponding entry in Unabridged rough, uncultivated.
- 9.See corresponding entry in Unabridged churl, oaf.
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged mild.
- 2, 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged cultured.
- 5.See corresponding entry in Unabridged cultivated.
Sav•age (sav′ij),USA pronunciation n. - Biographical Michael Joseph, 1872–1940, New Zealand statesman and labor leader: prime minister 1935–40.
- Biographical Richard, 1697?–1743, English poet.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: savage /ˈsævɪdʒ/ adj - wild; untamed: savage beasts of the jungle
- ferocious in temper; vicious: a savage dog
- uncivilized; crude: savage behaviour
- (of peoples) nonliterate or primitive: a savage tribe
- (of terrain) rugged and uncultivated
n - a member of a nonliterate society, esp one regarded as primitive
- a fierce or vicious person or animal
vb (transitive)- to criticize violently
- to attack ferociously and wound: the dog savaged the child
Etymology: 13th Century: from Old French sauvage, from Latin silvāticus belonging to a wood, from silva a woodˈsavagedom n ˈsavagely adv ˈsavageness n |