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Meanings of savage in English

Portuguese
fera
Catalan
fera
Spanish
animal

A cruelly rapacious person.

        fera
        Spanish
        tratar salvajemente

        Criticize harshly or violently.

              tratar salvajemente

              (Of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering.

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                  Without civilizing influences.

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                        Usage of savage in English
                        1
                        The people were as truly savage as any South Sea Islanders .
                        The Irish Times
                        2
                        The savage has only impulse; the civilized man has impulses and ideas.
                        Poor Relations
                        3
                        In her place was a savage thing made of fury and violence.
                        Depraved
                        4
                        The image of God is defaced in the hearts of the savage.
                        Dahcotah: Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling
                        5
                        The savage tribesmen burst in the door and crowded into the room.
                        The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier Wa...
                        6
                        In a short but savage war their entire society was wiped out.
                        Revelation
                        7
                        The savage draws his ideas of natural causation from observation of himself.
                        The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 1 ...
                        8
                        In one particular, the training of these savage politicians was never surpassed.
                        France and England in North America, Part II: The Jesuits in Nor...
                        9
                        He had a savage humility, valuable in a crisis of this sort.
                        Uneasy Money
                        10
                        He had to find some means to resolve his savage internal conflict.
                        For Love Of Evil
                        11
                        One had the face of a savage; the other was half drunk.
                        Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger
                        12
                        The lips of the Vermonter parted in a kind of savage grin.
                        The Guns of Shiloh: A Story of the Great Western Campaign
                        13
                        The savage cannot explain it at all; but he can use it.
                        Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy
                        14
                        They stalked in proudly, garbed in all the glory of savage splendours.
                        This Country of Ours
                        15
                        The once savage land is the nucleus of the arts and civilization.
                        Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
                        16
                        The social life has banished simplicity from even the most savage tribe.
                        Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
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                        Translations for savage
                        Portuguese
                        ferabesta
                        Savage through the time
                        Savage across language varieties
                        United Kingdom
                        Common
                        Ireland
                        Less common
                        Australia
                        Less common
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