savage

Adjective

• marked by extreme and violent energy
  • a ferocious beating
    
  • fierce fighting
    
  • a furious battle
    

• 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
    

• wild and menacing
  • a pack of feral dogs
    

• (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
    

Noun

• a cruelly rapacious person

• a member of an uncivilized people

Verb

• criticize harshly or violently
  • The press savaged the new President
    
  • The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage
    

• attack brutally and fiercely

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  ferocious , fierce , furious , barbarian , barbaric , uncivilized , uncivilised , wild , feral , ferine , barbarous , brutal , cruel , fell , roughshod , vicious , beast , wolf , brute , wildcat , blast , pillory , crucify