savage

Wild; not cultivated or tamed.

a savage wilderness

a savage forest

Barbaric; not civilized.

savage manners

I obſerv'd a Place where there had been a Fire made, and a Circle dug in the Earth, like a Cockpit, where it is ſuppoſed the Savage Wretches had ſat down to their inhumane Feaſtings upon the Bodies of their Fellow-Creatures.

Primitive; lacking complexity or sophistication.

Fierce and ferocious.

savage beasts

a savage spirit

Brutal, vicious, or merciless.

He gave the dog a savage kick.

The woman was killed in a savage manner.

A person not living in a civilization; a barbarian.

'Well, my lord, I don't know,' said Freeman with a sort of jolly sneer; 'we have been dining with the savages.' 'They are not savages, Freeman.' 'Well, my lord, they have not much more clothes, anyhow; and as for knives and forks, there is not such a thing known.'

The glimpse of the steamboat had for some reason filled those savages with unrestrained grief.

An aggressively defiant person.

Their kids are little savages! One of them bit me the other day.

Someone who speaks in an audacious, hilarious, and often sarcastic manner.

It was on Dec. 29 that TikTok star Liv Pearsall posted a video titled "7 Times Elmo Was an Absolute Savage," in which the star with more than 2.7 million followers lip-synced to various Elmo-ments.

"Sometimes they would stay up while she'd have a whole new guy in a relationship," she wrote in a comment. "LMFAO she is a savage."

A wild and ferocious beast.

The torch-eyed ſavage, with growl tremendous, riſing up, diſlocated at one blow the arched neck of Sadit's Arabian ſteed, and brought the unfortunate omrah to the duſt, expiring between his extended claws.

To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.

No matter how anyone might savage me, I should stay strong.

But that was only the start, because the Fletchers - (obviously) carrying two torpedo launchers - were only launching half-salvos, so one full wave of torpedoes had driven off the cruisers after having savaged the destroyers, aaand then it was a case of, well, here come twenty-five destroyers, here comes^([sic]) two hundred and fifty torpedoes, hello Japanese battleships, dodge this!

To criticise vehemently.

His latest film was savaged by most reviewers.

British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.

To attack with the teeth.

To make savage.

Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf.