Main entry: beast, savage, brute, wildcat, wolf
Definition: a cruelly rapacious person
Definition: a member of an uncivilized people
Main entry: crucify, blast, pillory, savage
Definition: criticize harshly or violently
Usage: The press savaged the new President; The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage
Main entry: savage
Definition: attack brutally and fiercely
Main entry: wild, barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilised, uncivilized
Definition: without civilizing influences
Usage: barbarian invaders; barbaric practices; a savage people; fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient-Margaret Meade; wild tribes
Main entry: brutal, barbarous, cruel, vicious, savage, roughshod, fell
Definition: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
Usage: a barbarous crime; brutal beatings; cruel tortures; Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks; a savage slap; vicious kicks
Main entry: feral, ferine, savage
Definition: wild and menacing
Usage: a pack of feral dogs
Main entry: furious, ferocious, fierce, savage
Definition: marked by extreme and violent energy
Usage: a ferocious beating; fierce fighting; a furious battle