Definitions for Savage

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Savage sav·age

Spelling: [sav-ij]

IPA: /ˈsæv ɪdʒ/

Savage is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in Savage (aaegsv).

Definitions for Savage

noun

1. an uncivilized human being.
2. a fierce, brutal, or cruel person.
3. a rude, boorish person.
4. a member of a preliterate society.
5. Michael Joseph, 1872–1940, New Zealand statesman and labor leader: prime minister 1935–40.
6. Richard, 1697?–1743, English poet.

adjective

1. fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed:
2. uncivilized; barbarous:
3. enraged or furiously angry, as a person.
4. unpolished; rude:
5. wild or rugged, as country or scenery:
6. Archaic. uncultivated; growing wild.

verb (used with object)

1. to assault and maul by biting, rending, goring, etc.; tear at or mutilate:
2. to attack or criticize thoroughly or remorselessly; excoriate:

Origin of Savage

1250-1300; Middle English savage, sauvage (adj.) Middle French sauvage, salvage Medieval Latin salvāticus, for Latin silvāticus, equivalent to silv(a) woods + -āticus adj. suffix

Examples for Savage

An hour ago he had whirled her out of her senses in savage passion.

The beheading of journalist Steven Sotloff is the latest, savage step on that climb.

savage noted that “HIV/AIDS forced us to start talking about what people are doing in bed.”

Her voice cut fiercely into the quiet of the room, imperious, savage.

There was a savage note in his voice under which the girl visibly winced.

His head was thrust forward menacingly, and his eyes were savage.

Bolstered by the momentum of savage, Masters continued to accumulate up-and-coming conservative talent.

In a 2009 profile of the right-wing firebrand, The New Yorker called savage “a heretic among heretics.”

After two years, the dispute ended with an arbitration ruling in favor of savage.

Chip, savage in his misery, regarded her over one square shoulder.