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What does "savage" mean?

Savage: Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts. Cornels, and savage berries of the wood. Dryden.

Additional senses

  1. 2.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.
  2. 3.Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit. See Ferocious.
  3. 4.A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is untaught; uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners.
  4. 5.A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian.
  5. 6.To make savage. [R.] Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf. South

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