What is the meaning of savage?

noun

• A member of an uncivilized people.
  • synonyms: barbarian
• A cruelly rapacious person.
  • synonyms: beast, wolf, brute, wildcat

verb

• Attack brutally and fiercely.
• Criticize harshly or violently.
  • usage: "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"
  • synonyms: blast, pillory, crucify

adjective

• Of persons or their actions. ( able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering)
  • usage: "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"
  • synonyms: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, vicious
• Wild and menacing.
  • usage: "a pack of feral dogs"
  • synonyms: feral, ferine
• Without civilizing influences.
  • usage: "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes"
  • synonyms: barbarian, barbaric, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild
• Marked by extreme and violent energy.
  • usage: "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle"
  • synonyms: ferocious, fierce, furious