[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

savage \sav"age\ ?; 48, a. f. sauvage, of. salvage, fr. l.
   silvaticus belonging to a wood, wild, fr. silva a wood. see
   silvan, and cf. sylvatic.
   1. of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes
      and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage
      wilderness.
      1913 webster

   2. wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts.
      1913 webster

            cornels, and savage berries of the wood. --dryden.
      1913 webster

   3. uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life;
      savage manners.
      1913 webster

            what nation, since the commencement of the christian
            era, ever rose from savage to civilized without
            christianity?                         --e. d.
                                                  griffin.
      1913 webster

   4. characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious;
      inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit.
      1913 webster

   syn: ferocious; wild; uncultivated; untamed; untaught;
        uncivilized; unpolished; rude; brutish; brutal;
        heathenish; barbarous; cruel; inhuman; fierce; pitiless;
        merciless; unmerciful; atrocious. see ferocious.
        1913 webster
see also:
silvan sylvatic ferocious 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

savage \sav"age\, n.
   1. a human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is
      untaught, uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or
      manners.
      1913 webster

   2. a man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian.
      1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

savage \sav"age\ ?; 48, v. t.
   to make savage. r.
   1913 webster

         its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf. --southey.
   1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

savage
     adj 1: of persons or their actions able or disposed to inflict
            pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal
            beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "stalin's roughshod
            treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious
            kicks" syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod,
             vicious
     2: wild and menacing; "a ferocious dog" syn: feral, ferine
     3: without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders";
        "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is
        crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are
        efficient"-margaret meade; "wild tribes" syn: barbarian,
         barbaric, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild
     4: marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating";
        "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle" syn: ferocious, fierce,
         furious
     n 1: a member of an uncivilized people syn: barbarian
     2: a cruelly rapacious person syn: beast, wolf, brute, wildcat
     v 1: attack brutally and fiercely
     2: criticize harshly or violently; "the press savaged the new
        president"; "the critics crucified the author for
        plagiarizing a famous passage" syn: pillory, crucify
see also:
barbarous brutal cruel fell roughshod vicious 
feral ferine barbarian barbaric uncivilized 
uncivilised wild ferocious fierce furious 
beast wolf brute wildcat pillory 
crucify 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

379 moby thesaurus words for "savage":
   draconian, goth, gothic, mafioso, neanderthal, tartarean,
   young turk, abrade, abuse, afflict, aggressive, aggrieve, agonize,
   animal, antagonistic, anthropophagite, anthropophagous, assault,
   atrocious, attack, baneful, barbarian, barbaric, barbarize,
   barbarous, bark, batter, battling, beast, beastly, befoul, beldam,
   bellicose, belligerent, berserk, berserker, bestial, bewitch,
   blemish, blight, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, bomber,
   break, bruise, brutal, brutalize, brutalized, brute, brutish,
   buffet, burn, butcher, cannibal, cannibalistic, carry on, chafe,
   chauvinist, chauvinistic, check, chip, claw, coldhearted,
   combative, condemn, contentious, convulse, corrupt, crack, craze,
   crucify, cruel, cruel-hearted, curse, cut, damage, deadly,
   death-bringing, deathful, deathly, defile, demon, demoniac,
   demoniacal, demonic, deprave, despoil, destroy, destroyer,
   destructive, devil, devilish, diabolic, disadvantage, disserve,
   distress, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do violence to, do wrong,
   do wrong by, do wrong to, doom, dragon, enemy, enraged, envenom,
   excruciate, fatal, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiend, fiendish,
   fiendlike, fierce, fighting, fighting mad, fire-eater, firebrand,
   fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, full of fight, fuming, furious,
   fury, gall, gash, get into trouble, go on, goon, gorilla, grim,
   gunsel, hammer, harass, hardnose, harm, harrow, harsh, hawkish,
   heartless, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, hellish, hex,
   holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hopping mad, hostile, hothead, hotspur,
   hurt, hyena, ill-bred, ill-treat, ill-use, impair, impale,
   implacable, impolite, in a rage, incendiary, incise, infect,
   infernal, infuriate, infuriated, inhuman, inhumane, inimical,
   injure, internecine, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, jinx,
   kill by inches, kill-crazy, killer, killing, knock about, lacerate,
   lancinate, lay waste, lethal, loot, macerate, mad dog, madcap,
   maim, make mincemeat of, malign, malignant, maltreat, man-eater,
   manhandle, martial, martyr, martyrize, maul, menace, merciless,
   militant, militaristic, military, mishandle, mistreat, molest,
   monster, mortal, mug, mugger, murderous, mutilate, nihilist,
   noncivilized, offensive, outlandish, outrage, pernicious,
   persecute, pierce, pillage, pitiless, play havoc with,
   play hob with, poison, pollute, prejudice, primeval, primitive,
   pugnacious, puncture, punish, quarrelsome, rabid, rack, rage,
   raging, ramp, rampage, rant, ranting, rapacious, rape, rapist,
   rave, ravenous, raving, raving mad, relentless, rend,
   revolutionary, riot, rip, roar, roaring mad, rough, rough up,
   rough-and-ready, rude, rugged, ruin, run, rupture, ruthless,
   saber-rattling, sack, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic,
   scald, scarify, scathe, scorch, scotch, scrape, scrappy, scratch,
   scuff, shark, sharkish, she-wolf, skin, slash, slaughter,
   slavering, slit, soldierlike, soldierly, sow chaos, spitfire,
   sprain, stab, stick, storm, storming, strain, subhuman, taint,
   tameless, tear, tear around, termagant, terror, terrorist,
   terrorize, threaten, tiger, tigress, torment, torture, tough,
   tough guy, traumatize, trigger-happy, troglodyte, troglodytic,
   truculent, ugly customer, unbroken, unchristian, uncivil,
   uncivilized, uncombed, uncontrolled, uncouth, uncultivated,
   uncultured, undomesticated, unfriendly, ungentle, unhuman, unkempt,
   unlicked, unmerciful, unpacific, unpeaceful, unpolished, unrefined,
   unrelenting, unsubdued, untamed, vandal, vandalize, vicious,
   violate, violent, virago, virulent, vixen, voracious, warlike,
   warmongering, warring, wild, wild beast, wild man, witch, wolf,
   wolfish, wound, wreak havoc on, wreck, wrecker, wrench, wring,
   wrong

[6] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

savage, md
  zip codes: 20763
savage, mn city, fips 58738
  location: 44.75538 n, 93.35724 w
  population 1990: 9906 3395 housing units
  area: 41.2 sq km land, 1.6 sq km water
  zip codes: 55378
savage, ms
  zip codes: 38665
savage, mt
  zip codes: 59262

[7] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

savage-guilford, md -- u.s. census designated place in maryland
   population 2000:    12918
   housing units 2000: 4943
   land area 2000:     4.936666 sq. miles 12.785905 sq. km
   water area 2000:    0.035417 sq. miles 0.091729 sq. km
   total area 2000:    4.972083 sq. miles 12.877634 sq. km
   fips code:            70487
   located within:       maryland md, fips 24
   location:             39.143607 n, 76.824616 w
   zip codes 1990:     20763
   note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   headwords:
    savage-guilford, md
    savage-guilford
    savage, md
    savage

[8] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

savage, mn -- u.s. city in minnesota
   population 2000:    21115
   housing units 2000: 6994
   land area 2000:     15.912930 sq. miles 41.214297 sq. km
   water area 2000:    0.605461 sq. miles 1.568137 sq. km
   total area 2000:    16.518391 sq. miles 42.782434 sq. km
   fips code:            58738
   located within:       minnesota mn, fips 27
   location:             44.756464 n, 93.355213 w
   zip codes 1990:     55378
   note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   headwords:
    savage, mn
    savage

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