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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
savage/ˈsavɪʤ/
▶adjective
- 1 fierce, violent, and uncontrolled.
■ cruel and vicious.
- 2 primitive; uncivilized.
- 3 (of a place) wild; uncultivated.
- 1 a member of a people regarded as primitive and uncivilized.
- 2 a brutal or vicious person.
- 3 Heraldry a representation of a bearded and semi-naked man with a wreath of leaves.
- 1 (especially of a dog) attack ferociously.
- 2 criticize brutally.
– derivatives
savagely adverb,
savageness noun,
savagery noun.
savagely adverb,
savageness noun,
savagery noun.
– origin ME: from OFr. sauvage ‘wild’, from L. silvaticus ‘of the woods’, from silva ‘a wood’.
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