savage

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Just then I saw a tall black man spring up from behind a bush and, with axe in hand, attack the overseer, who, it appeared to me, was in great danger of being killed; but as the savage was about to strike, the lash of the whip caught his arm and wrenched the weapon out of his hand The black, uttering a cry of disappointed rage, bounded away and a moment after was lost to sight among the scrub.

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  1. adjective Not domesticated or cultivated; wild: savage beasts of the jungle.
  2. adjective Not civilized; barbaric: a people living in a savage state.
  3. adjective Ferocious; fierce: in a savage temper.
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  • A couple of seconds delay on the part of Carson must have proved fatal to him, for the savage was a good marksman, and was standing still, with such a brief space intervening, that he could not have missed. —  The Life of Kit Carson
  • The humans stood awed, as once the savage was awed by rumblings in the sky, by the deep-toned authority of the hunting cats in the darkness of a Paleolithic night. —  Wonder Stories Quarterly Summer 1932
  • To the young Genevan, brought up in the restrictions of European civilization, the history of the savage was a favorite study. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Albert Gallatin, by John Austin Stevens.
  • He saw that the savage was armed, but the knife was not yet raised to strike. —  Over the Rocky Mountains Wandering Will in the Land of the Redskin
  • "Come along, then The party immediately set forward, although the savage was a little taken by surprise at the indifferent way in which Joe received his proposal to accompany them. —  The Dog Crusoe and his Master
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fierce ·  strange ·  native ·  ferocious ·  passionate

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savage:   savages ·  savaged
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  1. Middle English sauvage, from Old French, from Late Latin salvāticus, from Latin silvāticus, of the woods, wild, from silva, forest.

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  1. Early modern English also savadge, salvage, sauvage; from Middle English savage, sauvage, from Old French salvage, sauvage, savaige, French sauvage = Provencal salvatge, salvage = Spanish salvaje = Portuguese salvagem = Italian salvatico, selvaggio, from Latin silvaticus, belonging to a wood, wild, Middle Latin silvaticus, sylvaticus, also salvaticus, n., a savage, from silva, a wood: see silva, sylvan.
  2. from savage, n.
 

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