savage
adjective/ˈsævɪdʒ/
/ˈsævɪdʒ/
- aggressive and violent; causing great harm synonym brutal
- savage dogs
- She had been badly hurt in what police described as ‘a savage attack’.
- savage public spending cuts
Extra Examples- Police have over 20 new leads in the hunt for the savage killer of two young boys.
- Resistance provoked savage reprisals from the authorities.
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- involving very strong criticism
- The article was a savage attack on the government's record.
- [only before noun] (old-fashioned, taboo, offensive) an offensive way of referring to groups of people or customs that are considered to be simple and not highly developed synonym primitive
- a savage tribe
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French sauvage ‘wild’, from Latin silvaticus ‘of the woods’, from silva ‘a wood’.
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