Noun
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a cruelly rapacious person
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a member of an uncivilized people
Verb
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criticize harshly or violently
"The press savaged the new President"
"The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"
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attack brutally and fiercely
Adjective
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marked by extreme and violent energy
"a ferocious beating"
"fierce fighting"
"a furious battle"
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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"
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wild and menacing
"a pack of feral dogs"
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(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"