Examples: The press savaged the new President The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage
Examples: a barbarous crime brutal beatings cruel tortures Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks a savage slap vicious kicks
Examples: a pack of feral dogs
Examples: barbarian invaders barbaric practices a savage people fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient wild tribes
Examples: a ferocious beating fierce fighting a furious battle
savage (English)└── sauvage (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
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