n. 25B6; adjective
savage dogs : FEROCIOUS, fierce; wild, untamed, undomesticated, feral.
a savage assault : VICIOUS, brutal, cruel, sadistic, ferocious, fierce, violent, bloody, murderous, homicidal, bloodthirsty; poetic/literary fell; archaic sanguinary.
a savage attack on European free-trade policy : FIERCE, blistering, scathing, searing, stinging, devastating, mordant, trenchant, caustic, cutting, biting, withering, virulent, vitriolic.
a savage race : PRIMITIVE, uncivilized, unenlightened, non-literate, in a state of nature.
a savage landscape : RUGGED, rough, wild, inhospitable, uninhabitable.
a savage blow for the town : SEVERE, crushing, devastating, crippling, terrible, awful, dreadful, dire, catastrophic, calamitous, ruinous.
tame, mild, civilized.
25B6; noun
she'd expected mud huts and savages : BARBARIAN, wild man, wild woman, primitive.
she described her son's assailants as savages : BRUTE, beast, monster, barbarian, sadist, animal.
25B6; verb
he was savaged by a dog : MAUL, attack, tear to pieces, lacerate, claw, bite.
critics savaged the film : CRITICIZE SEVERELY, attack, lambaste, condemn, denounce, pillory, revile; informal pan, tear to pieces, hammer, slam, do a hatchet job on, crucify; Brit. informal slate, rubbish; N. Amer. informal trash; Austral./NZ informal bag, monster; formal excoriate.