Savaging
adjective
1.
fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed:
savage beasts.
2.
uncivilized; barbarous:
savage tribes.
3.
enraged or furiously angry, as a person.
4.
unpolished; rude:
savage manners.
5.
wild or rugged, as country or scenery:
savage wilderness.
6.
Archaic. uncultivated; growing wild.
noun
7.
an uncivilized human being.
8.
a fierce, brutal, or cruel person.
9.
a rude, boorish person.
10.
a member of a preliterate society.
verb (used with object), savaged, savaging.
11.
to assault and maul by biting, rending, goring, etc.; tear at or mutilate:
numerous sheep savaged by dogs.
12.
to attack or criticize thoroughly or remorselessly; excoriate:
a play savaged by the critics.
adjective
1.
wild; untamed: savage beasts of the jungle
2.
ferocious in temper; vicious: a savage dog
3.
uncivilized; crude: savage behaviour
4.
(of peoples) nonliterate or primitive: a savage tribe
5.
(of terrain) rugged and uncultivated
6.
(obsolete) far from human habitation
noun
7.
a member of a nonliterate society, esp one regarded as primitive
8.
a crude or uncivilized person
9.
a fierce or vicious person or animal
verb (transitive)
10.
to criticize violently
11.
to attack ferociously and wound: the dog savaged the child
noun
1.
Michael Joseph. 1872-1940, New Zealand statesman; prime minister of New Zealand (1935-40)
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