Savage vs Deadly - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between savage and deadly

is that savage is wild; not cultivated while deadly is subject to death; mortal.

As a noun savage

is an uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian.

As a verb savage

is to attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.

As a proper noun Savage

is {{surname|lang=en}.

As an adverb deadly is

fatally, mortally.

savage

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

wild; not cultivated

a savage wilderness

* Dryden

savage berries of the wood

barbaric; not civilized

savage manners

* 1719-

I observed a place where there had been a fire made, and a circle dug in the earth, like a cockpit, where I supposed the savage wretches had sat down to their human feastings upon the bodies of their fellow-creatures.

* E. D. Griffin

What nation, since the commencement of the Christian era, ever rose from savage to civilized without Christianity?

fierce and ferocious

savage beasts

a savage spirit

brutal, vicious or merciless

He gave the dog a savage kick.

The woman was killed in a savage manner.

(UK, slang) unpleasant or unfair

- I'll see you in detention.
- Ah, savage !

Noun

(en noun)

(pejorative) An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian.

* 1847 , , Tancred: or The New Crusade , page 251

'Well, my lord, I don't know,' said Freeman with a sort of jolly sneer; 'we have been dining with the savages'.'
'They are not ' savages , Freeman.'
'Well, my lord, they have not much more clothes, anyhow; and as for knives and forks, there is not such a thing known.'

(figuratively) A defiant person.

Verb

(transitive)

To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.

(figuratively) To criticise vehemently.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington

, title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}

(of an animal) To attack with the teeth.

(obsolete) To make savage.

* South

Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf.

Anagrams

deadly

English

Adjective

(en-adj)

(lb) Subject to death; mortal.

*:And whan he cam to the sacrament of the masse / and had done / anone he called Galahad and sayd to hym come forthe the seruaunt of Ihesu cryst and thou shalt see that thou hast moche desyred to see / & thenne he beganne to tremble ryght hard / whan the dedely flesshe beganne to beholde the spyrytuel thynges

*Wyclif Bible, (w) i. 23

*:The image of a deadly man.

Causing death; lethal.

Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:Thy assailant is quick, skillful, and deadly .

(lb) Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).

*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.

(lb) Very boring.

*:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly , idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital,!”

(lb) Excellent, awesome, cool.

Derived terms

* deadly sin

Adverb

(en adverb)

(obsolete) Fatally, mortally.

*, Folio Society, 2006, p.16:

perceiving himselfe deadly wounded by a shot received in his body, being by his men perswaded to come off and retire himselfe from out the throng, answered, he would not now so neere his end, begin to turn his face from his enemie

In a way which suggests death.

Her face suddenly became deadly white.

Extremely.

deadly weary — Orrery.

so deadly cunning a man — Arbuthnot.