Definition of savaged in English

Part of speech

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Noun Plural: savages
savage - a member of an uncivilized people
		barbarian
		primitive person, primitive a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"
		anthropophagite, anthropophagus, cannibal, man-eater a person who eats human flesh
		head-shrinker, headhunter a savage who cuts off and preserves the heads of enemies as trophies
		hunter-gatherer a member of a hunting and gathering society
		vandal someone who willfully destroys or defaces property
savage - a cruelly rapacious person
		beast, wolf, brute, wildcat
		assailant, assaulter, attacker, aggressor someone who attacks
Verb savages, savaging, savaged
savage - attack brutally and fiercely
		set on, assail, assault, attack attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly"
savage - criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"
		blast, pillory, crucify
		pick apart, criticise, criticize, knock act as a critic; "Those who criticize others often are not perfect, either"

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savage (Noun)
An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian.
savage (Noun)
A defiant person.
savage (Verb)
To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.
savage (Verb)
To criticise vehemently.
savage (Verb)
To attack with the teeth.
savage (Verb)
To make savage.
savage (Adjective)
wild; not cultivated.
savage (Adjective)
barbaric; not civilized.
savage (Adjective)
fierce and ferocious.
savage (Adjective)
brutal, vicious or merciless.
savage (Adjective)
Unpleasant or unfair.

savage (a.)
Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.
savage (a.)
Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts.
savage (a.)
Uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life; savage manners.
savage (a.)
Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit.
savage (n.)
A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is untaught, uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners.
savage (n.)
A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian.
savage (v. t.)
To make savage.

savage
Living outside of civilized societies.
savage
A person living an uncivilized life, in an original state viewed from a standpoint of the development of mankind from their infestation til today, having had no education in the narrow sense of modern civilisation's education.
savage
Marked by extreme and violent energy.

savage
sav′āj, adj. wild: uncivilised: fierce: cruel: brutal: (her.) nude: naked.—n. a human being in a wild state: a brutal, fierce, or cruel person: a barbarian.—v.t. and v.i. to make savage, to play the savage.—n. Sav′agedom, a savage state: savages collectively.—adv. Sav′agely.—ns. Sav′ageness; Sav′agery, fierceness: ferocity: wild growth of plants; Sav′agism. [O. Fr. salvage—L. silvaticus, pertaining to the woods—silva, a wood.]