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savagery

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sav·age·ry  (svj-r)
n. pl. sav·age·ries
1. The quality or condition of being savage.
2. An act of violent cruelty.
3. Savage behavior or nature; barbarity.

savagery [ˈsævɪdʒrɪ]
n pl -ries
1. an uncivilized condition
2. a savage act or nature
3. savages collectively

Savagery savage beasts or savage people, collectively; wild vegetation, 1599.
Example: the savagery that roamed in that great forest, 1867.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.savagery - the property of being untamed and ferocioussavagery - the property of being untamed and ferocious; "the coastline is littered with testaments to the savageness of the waters"; "a craving for barbaric splendor, for savagery and color and the throb of drums"
ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, vehemence, violence, wildness, fury - the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence"
2.savagery - the trait of extreme cruelty
cruelness, cruelty, harshness - the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance
3.savagery - a brutal barbarous savage act
atrocity, inhumanity - an act of atrocious cruelty

savagery
Translations
savagery [ˈsævɪdʒrɪ] N
1. (= violence) [of attack, blow] → ferocidad f, violencia f; [of criticism] → saña f, ferocidad f
the sheer savagery of warel puro salvajismo or la pura brutalidad de la guerra
2. (= primitiveness) → salvajismo m, estado m salvaje
3. (= drastic nature) [of cuts, reductions] → radicalidad f, carácter m drástico
savagery [ˈsævɪdʒəri] n (= cruelty, violence) → sauvagerie f
savagery
n
(of tribe, people)Wildheit f
(= cruelty)Grausamkeit f; (of attack)Brutalität f; (of treatment, prison life, cuts)brutale Härte; the savageries committed …die Grausamkeiten or Gräueltaten pl
savagery [ˈsævɪdʒrɪ] nferocia


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Her very savagery appealed to me, for it is the savagery of unspoiled Nature.
Born in savagery, having lived in savagery all their lives and known naught else, their sense of humour was correspondingly savage.
I was restrained from utter savagery only by the fact that Mrs.
 
 
 
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