savage in WordNet English dictionary

1. a member of an uncivilized people
   savage  barbarian 
   
2. a cruelly rapacious person
   beast  wolf  savage  brute  wildcat 
   

1. 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"
   barbarian  barbaric  savage  uncivilized  uncivilised  wild 
   
2. (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"
   barbarous  brutal  cruel  fell  roughshod  savage  vicious 
   
3. wild and menacing
   "a pack of feral dogs"
   feral  ferine  savage 
   
4. marked by extreme and violent energy
   "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle"
   ferocious  fierce  furious  savage 
   

1. criticize harshly or violently
   "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"
   savage  blast  pillory  crucify 
   
2. attack brutally and fiercely
   savage