Definitions for savages

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savages sav·age

Spelling: [sav-ij]

IPA: /ˈsæv ɪdʒ/

Savages is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in savages (aaegssv).

Definitions for savages

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.

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 savages

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 savages

He was wonderful, with Laura Linney, as a burdened brother and sister looking after an ailing parent in The savages (2007).

The savages instantly appeared, and applied their tomahawks to the door.

"These savages have their own way of making war," I answered, calmly.

The children's children of these savages were still in the Valley.

In their oath of vengeance, the Taliban called us “sick-minded American savages.”

The very drunk have the intuition sometimes of savages or brute beasts.

His father cheered, his mother wept, and the world saw that contrary to popular belief, Palestinians are not savages.

In his new film, savages, pot growers who enrage a drug cartel, are the protagonists.

From savages one cannot expect too much, not even from oneself.

NB: I'm totally guilty of much of what Nolan savages in his short essay.