Savage /(?; 48)/

Sav·age

Savage

a.
  1. Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.
  2. Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts.
    Cornels, and savage berries of the wood.
  3. Uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life; savage manners.
    What nation, since the commencement of the Christian era, ever rose from savage to civilized without Christianity?
    — E. D. Griffin.
  4. Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit.

Savage

n.
  1. A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is untaught, uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners.
  2. A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian.

Savage

v. t.
  1. To make savage. [R.]
    Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf.