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   Savage , a. [F. sauvage, OF. salvage, fr. L. silvaticus belonging to a wood, wild, fr. silva a wood. See Silvan, and cf. Sylvatic.]
   Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.
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   Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts.
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   Cornels, and savage berries of the wood.
   Dryden.
   
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   Uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life; savage manners.
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   What nation, since the commencement of the Christian era, ever rose from savage to civilized without Christianity?
   E. D. Griffin.
   
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   Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit.
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   Syn. -- Ferocious; wild; uncultivated; untamed; untaught; uncivilized; unpolished; rude; brutish; brutal; heathenish; barbarous; cruel; inhuman; fierce; pitiless; merciless; unmerciful; atrocious. See Ferocious.
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   Savage, n.
   A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is untaught, uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners.
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   A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian.
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   Savage , v. t. To make savage. [R.]
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   Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf.
   Southey.
   
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