savage

(noun) a member of an uncivilized people. Synonyms: barbarian.

(noun) a cruelly rapacious person. Synonyms: beast, wolf, brute, wildcat.

(verb) attack brutally and fiercely.

(verb) criticize harshly or violently. Synonyms: blast, pillory, crucify. Examples: "The press savaged the new president." "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage."

(adj) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering. Synonyms: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, vicious. Examples: "A barbarous crime." "Brutal beatings." "Cruel tortures." "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks." "A savage slap." "Vicious kicks."

(adj) wild and menacing. Synonyms: feral, ferine. Examples: "A pack of feral dogs."

(adj) without civilizing influences. Synonyms: barbarian, barbaric, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild. Examples: "Barbarian invaders." "Barbaric practices." "A savage people." "Fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-margaret meade." "Wild tribes."

(adj) marked by extreme and violent energy. Synonyms: ferocious, fierce, furious. Examples: "A ferocious beating." "Fierce fighting." "A furious battle."