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selvagem — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • haggard adjective Looking tired, worn out, or unwell, often from stress, illness, or lack of sleep.
  • native noun Someone who was born in a particular place.
  • savage adj Extremely fierce, violent, or brutal.
  • Turk noun A member of the Turkic-speaking peoples, or specifically an ethnic Turk from Anatolia.
  • vicious adj Deliberately cruel, violent, or savage.
  • wild adj Living or growing in a natural state, not tamed, farmed, or cultivated by people.

Senses

selvagem is used for these senses in English:

  • Turk (archaic) A bloodthirsty and savage person; vandal; barbarian. [from 16th c.]
  • haggard (of an animal) Wild or untamed
  • native A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.
  • savage (historical, now, pejorative, ) A person not living in a civilization; a barbarian.
  • vicious Savage and aggressive.
  • wild Untamed; not domesticated.
  • wild Raucous, unruly, or licentious.

native — full definition

  1. noun Someone who was born in a particular place.
  2. adj Belonging to a place by birth or original origin, rather than having moved there or been introduced.
  3. adj Present or built into something from the start, rather than added on later — often used of skills or abilities.

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