Savage: alternatives and connections

Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; f…

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Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; f…

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Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily approached by, man; not tamed o…

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Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily approached by, man; not tamed o…

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The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.

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To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery.

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Assailing; attacking.

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A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make as…

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One who assaults, or violently attacks; an assailant.

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To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

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One who attacks.

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To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture.

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To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.

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Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first; as, primitive innocence; the primitive church.

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A cannibal.

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A human being that eats human flesh; hence, any that devours its own kind.

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One who, or that which, has an appetite for human flesh; specifically, one of certain large sharks (esp. Carcharodon Rondeleti); also, a lion or a ti…

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One of a Teutonic race, formerly dwelling on the south shore of the Baltic, the most barbarous and fierce of the northern nations that plundered Rome…

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A foreigner.

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A foreigner.

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The state or quality of being savage.

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The state or quality of being savage.

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The state of being savage; savageness; savagism.

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The state of being savage; savageness; savagism.

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A foreigner.

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Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.

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Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.

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A violent gust of wind.

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Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature.

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Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.

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To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.

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See Crewel.

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of Fall

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Wild; untamed; ferine; not domesticated; -- said of beasts, birds, and plants.

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Wild; untamed; savage; as, lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are ferine beasts.

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Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion.

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Furious; violent; unrestrained; impetuous; as, a fierce wind.

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Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a furious animal.

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A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in f…

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Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse.

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Not civilized; not reclaimed from savage life; rude; barbarous; savage; as, the uncivilized inhabitants of Central Africa.

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Characterized by vice or defects; defective; faulty; imperfect.

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Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily approached by, man; not tamed o…

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Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most d…

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