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(verb) criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President" |
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Related Words: criticise, criticize, pick apart |
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(noun) a member of an uncivilized people |
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Synonyms: barbarian |
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Related Words: Vandal, anthropophagite, anthropophagus, cannibal, head-shrinker, headhunter, man-eater, primitive, primitive person |
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(satellite adjective) wild and menacing; "a ferocious dog" |
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Synonyms: feral |
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(satellite adjective) 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" |
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Synonyms: barbarian, barbaric, uncivilized, wild |
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(noun) a cruelly rapacious person |
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Synonyms: beast, brute, wildcat, wolf |
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Related Words: aggressor, assailant, attacker |
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(satellite adjective) marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle" |
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Synonyms: ferocious, fierce, furious |
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(satellite adjective) (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" |
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Synonyms: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, vicious |
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