Savage

Definitions: Savage

Savage

Adjective

1. (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".

2. Wild and menacing; "a ferocious dog".

3. 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".

4. Marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle".

Noun

1. A member of an uncivilized people.

2. A cruelly rapacious person.

Verb

1. Attack brutally and fiercely.

2. Criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President".

Date "savage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Savage (2 syl.). One who lives in a wood (Greek, hule, a forest; Latin, silva; Spanish, salvage; Italian, selvaggio; French, sauvage). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Savage

Synonyms: barbaric (adj), barbarous (adj), brutal (adj), cruel (adj), fell (adj), feral (adj), ferocious (adj), fierce (adj), furious (adj), roughshod (adj), uncivilised (adj), uncivilized (adj), vicious (adj), wild (adj), barbarian (n), beast (n), brute (n), wildcat (n), wolf (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Attack	Phrase: "the din of arms, the yell of savage rage, the shriek of agony, the groan of death"; "their fatal hands no second stroke intend"; "thirst for glory quells the love of life".
Commonalty	Goth, Vandal, Hottentot, Zulu, savage, barbarian, Yahoo; unlicked cub, rough diamond.
Courage	Fierce, savage; pugnacious; (bellicose).
Evil doer	Savage, brute, ruffian, barbarian, semibarbarian, caitiff, desperado; Apache, hoodlum, hood, plug-ugly, pug-ugly, Red Skin, tough; Mohawk, Mo-hock, Mo-hawk; bludgeon man, bully, rough, hooligan, larrikin, dangerous classes, ugly customer; thief.
Malevolence	Cruel; brutal, brutish; savage, savage as a bear, savage as a tiger; ferine, ferocious; inhuman; barbarous, barbaric, semibarbaric, fell, untamed, tameless, truculent, incendiary; bloodthirsty; (murderous); atrocious; bloodyminded.
Resentment	Fierce, wild, rageful, furious, mad with rage, fiery, infuriate, rabid, savage; relentless.
Violence	Savage, fierce, ferocious, fierce as a tiger.
Vulgarity	Unkempt. uncombed, untamed, unlicked, unpolished, uncouth; plebeian; incondite; heavy, rude, awkward; homely, homespun, home bred; provincial, countrified, rustic; boorish, clownish; savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish; barbarous, barbaric; Gothic,
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	If I can teach a parrot to sing 'God Save The Queen', then I can teach this savage a thing or two. (Tarzan; writing credit: Edgar Rice Burroughs; Tab Murphy) Primitive, savage, in love with danger. (T.H.E. Cat; writing credit: Harry Julian Fink) Brutal! Savage! Beyond Perversion! (The Kentucky Fried Movie; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; David Zucker) Appearance, my friend, is first and foremost in this savage land that we call high school. (2 Little, 2 Late; writing credit: Jim Brooks; Mark Swanson) Doc Savage is here! (Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze; writing credit: Lester Dent; Joe Morhaim)
Lyrics	Made the savage beast inside ("Lady Marmalade"; performing artist: Christina Aguilera) But all you savage cats ("Forgot About Dre"; performing artist: Dr. dre) Content bein a savage ("Get Away"; performing artist: Jade) Just hear those savage beats, ("The Masochism Tango"; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)
Clever	When anger rushes, unrestrained, to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles in its way. (references; author: Savage)
Movie/TV Titles	Savage Sisters (1974) The Savage Is Loose (1974) Savage (1973) Savage! (1973) Gentle Savage (1973)
Song Titles	Crash & Burn (performing artist: Savage Garden) I Knew I Loved You (performing artist: Savage Garden) I Want You (performing artist: Savage Garden) To The Moon And Back (performing artist: Savage Garden) Truly Madly Deeply (performing artist: Savage Garden)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	This Grim and Savage Game: The OSS and U.S. Covert Operations in World War II (reference) Social Science/Ignoble Savage (reference) Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools (reference) The Savage My Kinsman (reference) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas : A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Savage (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Savage Earth: Hell's Crust (reference) Doc Savage... the Man of Bronze (reference) Scorpions - A Savage Crazy World (reference) Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 39, Episodes 77 & 78: The Savage Curtain / All Our Yesterdays (reference) Savage Messiah (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Glimpse of Savage Nights [CD-SINGLE] (reference) Godless Savage Garden (reference) This Ain't No Fit Place: The Best of Savage (reference) Savage Amusement (reference) ...To Soothe The Savage Breast (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Savage Skies (reference) Second Source OEM Stealth Iii 4X AGP 32MB S540 Savage 4 Pro Bulk 10-Pack (reference) SR9 AGP 8MB 2X S3 SAVAGE 4 (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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	With a North American AJ-1 "Savage" attack plane on her flight deck. Photographed by W.M. Cox. The image is dated 29 August 1952, when Oriskany was operating off the U.S. west coast, preparing for her first Korean War deployment.Credit: NAVY.		Anchored at Cannes, France, on 17 June 1957, during her final deployment as an attack aircraft carrier. Among the planes on her flight deck are three large AJ "Savage" attack aircraft. Photographed by PH2 J.R. Sholar.Credit: NAVY.
	Aftermath of casualties and destruction following the savage battle for Tarawa in November 1943.Credit: Library of Congress.		Repeating rifles. Savage Ute:--"We want no improvements but this! / Bisbee.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Savage Station, Va. Field hospital after the battle of June 27.Credit: Library of Congress.		Linden, New Jersey. Mrs. E.D. Roosevelt during her visit to General Motor's Eastern Aircraft Division. Left to right: L.H. Savage, president of Industrial Food Crafts Inc.; C.S. Swayze, manager, Linden plant, General Motors, Inc.; Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt;.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Charles Savage, old bachelor. Jefferson County, New York.Credit: Library of Congress.		Mrs. Frances Savage, residence at 17 Briarcliff Avenue, Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. General view.Credit: Library of Congress.
	The Washington family--George Washington, his lady, and her two grandchildren by the name of Custis / painted & engraved by E. Savage.Credit: Library of Congress.		Tarzan. "No, do not kill him," Hitler snapped. "Our good German 'Tarzan' will conquer this jungle savage".Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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	Thundering; bitter; blowy; blustering; blustering; blustery; boisterous; cold; coming down; damp; dirty; foul; frigid; furious; gusty; howling; menacing; murky; pouring; raging; rainy; rip-roaring; roaring; savage; squally; stormful; storming; tempestuous.		Storming; treacherous; bitter; blowy; blustering; blustering; blustery; boisterous; cold; coming down; damp; dirty; foul; frigid; furious; gusty; howling; menacing; murky; pouring; raging; rainy; rip-roaring; roaring; savage; squally; stormful; storming; .
	Wild animal; lion; tiger; beast; beastly; bestial; vicious; barbaric; barbarian; barbarous; savage.		Roar; bellow; gorilla; anthropoid ape; simian; primate; barbarous; bloodthirsty; dangerous; enraged; feral; ferocious; fiery; furious; infuriated; primitive; raging; savage; untamed; vicious; violent; wild; enraged; maddened; provoked.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Henry David Thoreau	The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
Walter Savage Landor	Consult duty not events.
	Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
	Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.
	Taken as a whole, the universe is absurd.
	What is reading, but silent conversation.
	A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
	Great men always pay deference to greater.
	We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
William Shakespeare	In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	It is the unjust use of force then, that puts a man into the state of war with another; and thereby he that is guilty of it makes a forfeiture of his life: for quitting reason, which is the rule given between man and man, and using force, the way of beasts, he becomes liable to be destroyed by him he uses force against, as any savage ravenous beast, that is dangerous to his being. (Second Treatise of Government)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Three Voices	Carroll, Lewis	Still from each fact, with skill uncouth And savage rapture, like a tooth She wrenched some slow reluctant truth.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The candle made the savage ends and corners of his face stand out prominently.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	Beside the savage desire within him to realise the enormities which he brooded on nothing was sacred.
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	Not to relent is beastly, savage, devilish.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	She had held her own with a shrill ferocious religiosity that was as lecherous and as savage as anything Grampa could offer.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	The Captain had often entreated me to strip myself of my savage dress, and offered to lend me the best suit of clothes he had.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears. The savage dies -- they sacrifice a horse To bear to happy hunting-grounds the corse. Our friends expire -- we make the money fly In hope their souls will chase it to the sky. Jex Wopley
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
James Monroe	1817-1825	Experience has clearly demonstrated that independent savage communities can not long exist within the limits of a civilized population.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	Thus, though lavish in its expenditures upon the subject, Government has constantly defeated its own policy, and the Indians in general, receding farther and farther to the west, have retained their savage habits.
George Bush	1989-1993	Tonight, we work to achieve another victory, a victory over tyranny and savage aggression.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Savage" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 56.46% of the time. "Savage" is used about 812 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	56.46%	459	12,771
Noun (proper)	31.73%	258	18,412
Noun (singular)	8.98%	73	39,105
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	2.09%	17	85,106
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.74%	6	143,867
Total	100.00%	812	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "savage" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Savage	Last name	20,000	582
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

1. Savage, MD
Zip Code(s): 20763
Country: USA

2. Savage, MN (city, FIPS 58738)
Location: 44.75538 N, 93.35724 W
Population (1990): 9906 (3395 housing units)
Area: 41.2 sq km (land), 1.6 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 55378
Country: USA

3. Savage, MS
Zip Code(s): 38665
Country: USA

4. Savage, MT
Zip Code(s): 59262
Country: USA

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Expressions: Savage

Expressions using "savage": barbarous brutal cruel fell roughshod savage vicious ♦ become savage ♦ grow savage ♦ look savage ♦ make savage ♦ Mount Savage ♦ savage fighting ♦ savage looking. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "savage": savage-civilized, Savage-Guilford, Savage-rumbaugh.
	Ending with "savage": noble-savage, semi-savage.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Savage

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
michael savage	1,751
savage garden	1,643
savage	1,164
blonde savage	564
savage nation	545
savage arms	537
ben savage	362
savage garden lyrics	278
savage firearm	275
savage love	218
hpi savage	188
21 savage	179
suzuki savage	177
fred savage	176
savage rifle	169
randy savage	166
savage minnesota	164
dan savage	148
mike savage	139
macho man randy savage	117
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Savage

Language		Translations for "savage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		njeri i egër (beast, cave-man), njeri i ashpër, mizor (atrocious, cruel, despiteful, draconian, draconic, ferocious, fiendish, inhuman, outrageous, pitiless), i pamëshirshëm (dispiteous, flint hearted, grim, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, unmerciful, unrelenting), i egër (atrocious, barbarous, bestial, cannibalic, cannibalish, cruel, despiteful, ferae naturae, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, furious, merciless, outrageous, rabid, snappish, tigerish, tigrish, vicious, wild), i ashpër (argute, austere, biting, bluff, bluffy, Brant, bristly, brusque, churlish, coarse, crude, ding-dong, dour, draconian, draconic, gravelly, grim, gruff, hard, harsh, ill, ill natured, inclement, keen, malevolent, pipy, raucous, rigid, rigorous, rough, rough and ready, rude, scabrous, scathing, scratchy, severe, shaggy, slashing, smart, stern, strict, tough, truculent, uncharitable, unkind, unmerciful, violent, wiry). (various references)

Arabic		‏فظ (abrupt, blunt, boor, boorish, brusque, brutish, burly, chuffy, churlish, clownish, coarse, country, crude, crusty, curt, discourteous, earthy, grievous, gross, gruff, hairy, harsh, hoarse, ill mannered, impolite, indelicate, low, mannerless, obdurate, off hand, plug ugly, precipitous, rough, rough and ready, rude, ruffianly, rugged, rustic, scathe, serious, shaggy, short, sour, surly, uncivil, uncouth, unkind, unmannerly, unprintable), ‏متوحش (awful, barbarous, ferocious, ruffianly), ‏همجي (barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, heathen, hooligan, outlandish, ruffian, ruffianly, skinhead, uncivil, uncivilised, undisciplined, wild), ‏هاجم بعنف (assail, batter, inveigh, oversteer, rave, storm), ‏وحشي (atrocious, barbarian, barbarous, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, brutal, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, cruel, diabolic, diabolical, draconian, feral, fiendish, fierce, ill, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, remorseless, ruffian, truculent, unfeeling, vicious, wanton, wild), ‏غير متمدن (barbaric, barbarous, heathen, uncivil, uncivilised), ‏ضار (detrimental, felled, ferocious, fierce, hurtful, impish, injurious, malign, malignant, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pest, poisonous, predatory, prejudicial, rabid, rapacious, ravenous, set, sharp, truculent, unhealthy, unwholesome, vicious), ‏شخص فظ (bear, oaf, roughneck, rowdy, skunk), ‏بربري (barbarian, barbaric, insensate, moorish). (various references)

Bulgarian		нападам яростно, дивак (caveman, heathen, hottentot, wild man), дивашки, правя да подивее, простак (bounder, buffoon, cad, fellow, hog, lout, oaf, outsider, philistine, schmo, schnook, slob, spoon, twerp, vulgarian), просташки (blatant, caddish, jazz, jumped-up, loud, low-minded, oafish, ornery, philistine, raffish, rank, rough, rude, swinish, tasteless, underbred, unrefined, vulgar), безжалостен (heartless, inexorable, inexpiable, merciless, pitiless, remorseless, ruthless), див (barbarous, dark, ferae naturae, feral, ferine, ferocious, frenzied, harsh, heathen, lupine, natural, orgiastic, rough, tameless, uncivilized, uncultivated, untamed, wild), нападам свирепо (rip into), стъпквам (override, ride down, stamp down, stamp out, tread down), освирепял (furious), грубиян (abuser, bohunk, boor, bulldozer, chuff, churl, clown, hottentot, larrikin, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, yap), хапя (bite, nibble, nip, worry), разярен (enraged, furious, irate, livid, rampageous, thundery, wrathful), свиреп (ferocious, fierce, grim, lupine, outrageous, rabid, truculent), свиреп човек (dragon, rogue, war dog), жесток човек (dragoon, tiger, turk). (various references)

Chinese		野蛮 (Barbarian, Barbaric, Barbarities, Barbarity, Barbarous), 猖狂 (furious), 殘 (cruel, destroy, disabled, incomplete, injure, oppressive, ruin, spoil). (various references)

Czech		seřvat (bitch out), sžíravý (abrasive, blistering, caustic, mordant), zuřivý (blazing, ferocious, fierce, frantic, furious, furred, rabid, vehement, violent), zbìsilý (rabid), vrhnout se na koho (descend on smb., hurl oneself at smb., lunge out at smb.), vražedný (blistering, deadly, homicidal, killing, murderous), roztrhat (break up, lacerate, pull apart, pull to pieces, rip up, sunder, tear, tear apart, tear asunder, tear up), primitivný, pokousat, nemilosrdný (hard-hearted, heartless, pitiless, remorseless, ruthless, ungracious, unmerciful, unsparing), nelítostný (pitiless, relentless, remorseless, unmerciful), krutý (atrocious, bitter, brutal, cruel, dispiteous, extreme, fierce, gory, grim, hard, harsh, heartless, heathenish, rigid, ruthless, severe, torsion, unkind, unrelenting, vicious, wolfish), drastický (drastic), barbarský (barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, heathen, uncivilized). (various references)

Danish		vild (astray, ferocious, wild). (various references)

Dutch		woest (dreary, ferocious, fierce, furious, gaunt, uncultivated, wild), wild (dreary, ferocious, game, game animals, uncultivated, venison, wild). (various references)

Esperanto		sovaĝa (wild). (various references)

Faeroese		villur (ferocious, wild). (various references)

Farsi		وحشی کردن , وحشی شدن , وحشی (Barbaric, Barbarous, Brutal, Ferocious, Gross, Harebrained, Rambunctious, Ruffian, Ruttish, Truculent, Uncivil, Uncivilized, Undaunted, Ungovernable, Unshaped(En), Wild), غیراهلی (Wildlife), سبع (Atrocious, Brute, Ferocious, Fierce, Murderous, Truculent, Voracious, Wroth), رام نشده (Haggard, Unbacked, Undaunted). (various references)

Finnish		villi-ihminen, villi (independent, wild). (various references)

French		sauvage. (various references)

Frisian		wyld (ferocious, wild). (various references)

German		wild (berserk, boisterous, boisterously, bold, crook, deer, feral, ferocious, ferociously, fierce, frantic, furious, furiously, game, game animals, haggard, helter-skelter, illegal, rabid, rambunctious, rampant, riotous, riotously, rough, rugged, savagely, truculently, undomesticated, ungovernable, unofficial, unruly, venison, wholesale, Wild, wild game, wildcat, wildly), grausam (atrocious, barbarous, callous, cruel, cruelly, ferocious, ghastly, heartless, sanguinary). (various references)

Greek		άγριοσ (black, feral, ferocious, fierce, harsh, lupin, lupine, sassy, truculent, violent, wild), ανήμεροσ (untamable), θηριώδησ (ferocious, tigerish, truculent). (various references)

Hebrew		לתקוף (assail, assault, attack, seize), לזעוף (be angry, glower, look grim, look savage, lour), פראי (bestial, brutal, brute, feral, ferocious, fierce, truculent, wild), פרא א�"ם (ruffian, wild), פרא (wild, wild ass, wildcat), אכזרי (brutal, cruel, fell, ferocious, inhumane, merciless, tigerish, unfeeling), ברברי (barbarian, barbaric). (various references)

Hungarian		vadember, vad (barbarian, barbarous, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, frenzied, game, gothic, phrenetic, rabid, ramage, rambunctious, rampageous, rampant, robustic, rough and tumble, ruffianly, rumbustious, tameless, truculent, wild), kegyetlen (atrocious, bloody, brutal, brutish, cruel, dispiteous, felon, ferocious, grim, hard, heinous, inhuman, insensate, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, sanguinary, scathing, tigerish, tyrannical). (various references)

Indonesian		garang (cruel, ferocious, fierce, rampageous, very strong, vivid, wild), ganas (ferocious, malignant, vicious), buas (cruel, desolate, ferocious, furious, wild). (various references)

Italian		selvaggio (brutal, ferocious, frantically, haggard, primitive, rampant, tigerish, tomboyish, wild), crudele (cruel, fell, flinty, hard-hearted, harsh, heartless, merciless, pitiless, sanguinary, unkind). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		野蛮 (uncivilized). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		さつばつ (bloodthirsty, brutal), ば�"じ�" (10000 fathoms, 10000 people, aboriginal, all people, barbarian, everybody, great depth, great height), ば�"てき (barbarous, rustic), やば�"じ�" (barbarian), やば�" (night sentry, night watch, uncivilized), もうあく (atrocious, ferocious), みかいじ�" (barbarian, savagepeople), えびす (Ainu, barbarian, The God of Wealth). (various references)

Korean		미개한 (Barbaric). (various references)

Manx		raipey (gore, gore of bull, lacerate, laceration; crake, laceration; crake cry, pull apart, rend, rip, snatch away, tear), oaldey (predatory, rapacious, uncivilized, wild, wild as animal, wolfish), keoie (crazy, fiery, frenetic, frenzied, furious, insane, lunatic, maniac, vicious, wild, wild as person), fer oaldey, feie (natural, wild), feiaragh, feiar, dewil (barbarous, cold-blooded, cruel, inclement, severe). (various references)

Papiamen		brabu (ferocious, wild). (various references)

Pig Latin		avagesay

Portuguese		selvagem (barbaric, brutal, feretory, goth, riderless, truculent, unbacked, unsociable, wild, Wilding). (various references)

Romanian		sãlbatic (barbarous, bloodthirsty, brutal, brutish, cruel, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, fiery, haggard, harsh, impetuous, inhuman, inhumanly, rugged, sanguinary, shaggy, tameless, truculent, uncivilized, uncouth, uncouthly, uncultivated, uncultured, ungovernable, unruly, unsociable, violent, wild, wild man), turbat (awful, enraged, frenzied, furious, furiously, mad, rabid, tremendously), necivilizat (hottentot, uncouth), feroce (awful, barbarous, bloodthirsty, brutal, cruel, dreadful, fearful, ferocious, ferociously, fierce, inhuman, ruthless, savagely, truculent, unmerciful), crud (brutal, brutally, callous, callow, crude, cruel, cruelly, cut throat, dire, foully, gory, green, hard, harsh, immature, merciless, raw, ruthless, sanguinary, savagely, sodden, sour, truculent, unfeeling, violent, violently, wolfish, young), brutal (beastly, boorish, brutal, brutally, cruelly, feral, insensate, rough, roughly, rude, savagely, truculent, violent), brutã (beast, brute, yahoo), barbar (barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, goth, gothic, inhuman), başbuzuc (brute, turk). (various references)

Russian		свирепый (ferocious, fierce, furious, truculent, wicked), грубый человек (beast, boor, churl, hog, rough customer), взбешенный (frenzied, furious), дикарь (native, wildman), дикий (farouche, ferae naturae, feral, ferine, natural, orgiastic, tameless, untamed, wild). (various references)

Scottish		fiadhaich (boisterous, invite, tempestuous), borb (fierce, passionate), allaidh (fierce). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		podivljati (amok: run amok, amuck: run amuck, drive wild), nepripitomljen (untamed), napasti (attack, attempt, go for, invade, jump, lace, offend, take apart, tilt), divljak (barbarian, goth, hottentot), divalj (wild), animalan (animal). (various references)

Spanish		fiero (ferocious, wild). (various references)

Swedish		vild (coltish, delirious, ding-dong, ferae naturae, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, frenetic, haggard, headlong, madcap, phrenetic, rampant, riotous, truculant, truculent, untamed, wild, wildcat), vildsint (ferocious, wild), vilde, ociviliserad (uncivilised, uncivilized), barbarisk (barbaric, barbarous, gothic, uncivilized). (various references)

Thai		โห�"ร้าย (brutal, dog-eat-dog, iron). (various references)

Turkish		saldırıp ısırmak, zalim (arbitrary, atrocious, bloody minded, brutal, cruel, cutthroat, daemon, demon, draconian, draconic, fell, felon, fiendish, flinty, grim, heavy, heavy-handed, ill natured, inhuman, miscreant, ogre, oppressive, oppressor, outrageous, persecutor, sanguinary, stony, truculent, tyrannic, tyrannical), yabani (bestial, brutal, brute, brutish, fair, feral, haggard, untamed, wild), yaban, yırtıcı (ferocious, predaceous, predacious, predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravenous, ripper), vahşi (atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, brutal, brute, churlish, feral, ferocious, haggard, heathen, heathenish, rude, tigerish, truculent, uncivilized, wild, wolfish), canavar ruhlu, barbar (barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, goth, gothic, heathen, heathenish, uncivilized, vandal, vandalic, wild), ısırmak (bite, bite off, champ, nibble, nip, snap, sting). (various references)

Ukranian		розлючений (candent, enraged, furious, raging, waxy, white hot, wrathy), шалено нападати, неприборканий (untamed), люта людина, лютий (angry, diabolic, diabolical, fell, ferocious, fierce, out and out, rampant, truculent, wicked), бити копитами (hoof), дикун (backwoodsman, barbarian), дика тварина, дикий (barbarian, barbarous, feral, ferine, natural, orgiastic, wild). (various references)

Vietnamese		người man rợ người t� n bạo dã man, người hoang dã, người độc ác (hellkite), hoang vu, hoang dại dã man, cáu kỉnh (bed, crossly, edgy, fretful, grouchy, huffish, peevish, querulous, surly). (various references)

Welsh		mileinig (ferocious, malignant), milain (angry, cruel, fierce), gwyllt (mad, rapid, wild), ffyrnig (ferocious, fierce), egr (cheeky, severe, sharp, sour), barbaraidd (fierce), anwaraidd (barbarous, cruel, uncivilized, wild), anwar (barbarian, barbarous, cruel, wild, wild man). (various references)

Yucatec		k'o'ox (ferocious, wild). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Savage

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	agrestes, agrestia, agrestibus, barbarus, crudo, crudum, efferant, efferas, efferatis, efferent, effereris, efferes, efferet, efferetis, efferus, fera, ferae, feram, feras, fere, feri, feris, feros, ferus, inhumanus, inmitis, pheros, saeva, saevi, saevis, saevissimis, saevum, saevus, sÃ¦vus, torva, truculentus. (various references)
Old English	450-1100	wildeoren. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Savage

Derivations
	Words beginning with "savage": savaged, savagely, savageness, savagenesses, savager, savageries, savagery, savages, savagest. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Savage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: avvago, gavage, Kavaje, Safaga, Sakaue, Samange, Saraga, sasage, sauage, sauvage, sava, savager, savane, savate, savge, Savidge, Savva, Sayag, scavege, Sevigne, Sovgeo. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Savage"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "savage" (pronounced sa"vij)
4	-a" v i j	ravage.
3	-v i j	selvage.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Savage

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: agaves.
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-s-v"
	-1 letter: agave, avgas.
	-2 letters: agas, ages, asea, aves, gaes, gave, saga, sage, save, vasa, vase.
	-3 letters: aas, aga, age, ava, ave, gae, gas, sae, sag, sea, seg, vas, veg.
	-4 letters: aa, ae, ag, as, es.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-s-v"
	+1 letter: avgases, gavages, lavages, ravages, salvage, savaged, savager, savages.
	+2 letters: aasvogel, averages, avgasses, ravagers, salvaged, salvagee, salvager, salvages, savagely, savagery, savagest, stravage, vagaries, vantages.
	+3 letters: aasvogels, cleavages, divagates, galvanise, giveaways, gravamens, margraves, navigates, palsgrave, salvagees, salvagers, stravaged, stravages, vassalage, vicarages.
	+4 letters: advantages, aggravates, flagstaves, galvanised, galvanises, galvanizes, graveyards, gravitases, gravitates, palsgraves, savageness, savageries, stravaiged, subaverage, vagrancies, variegates, vassalages.
	+5 letters: aestivating, averageness, devastating, galvanizers, invaginates, margravates, margravines, overmanages, ravagements, salvageable, sugarloaves, variegators, vegetarians.
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