What's the difference between savage and violent?

Savage


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.
  • (a.) Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts.
  • (a.) Uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life; savage manners.
  • (a.) Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit.
  • (n.) A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is untaught, uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners.
  • (n.) A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian.
  • (v. t.) To make savage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The duo were given a standing ovation as they took to the stage helped by Evans and guest presenter Robbie Savage.
  • (2) But he will also have seen Michael Cockerell's savage documentary on Saturday on How to be a Tory leader.
  • (3) Lib Dems are the most hostile to cuts and the keenest on tax – 32% want cuts and 53% tax – suggesting that Clegg's talk of "savage" reductions in spending may go down badly with his party base.
  • (4) And yet, by spotlighting how very far the brand has travelled under Sarah Burton in the post-Lee years, the Savage Beauty announcement, coming hot on the heels of the Antipodean tour, also flags up the contrasting identities that cohabit the McQueen brand.
  • (5) Vince Cable, the business secretary, who was savagely critical of BAE over bribery allegations whilst in opposition in 2010 , said: "It is a very, very important decision and has major implications for the country, both in terms of employment and national security.
  • (6) Wendy Savage, from Keep Our NHS Public , said groups from London, Oxford and Manchester would be demonstrating alongside members of the NHS Consultants' Association.
  • (7) After savaging the childcare support available to poorer working parents through tax credits in 2011, the coalition last year sought to redeem itself with a first draft of the new subsidy scheme, which created some winners up the scale, but left many more vulnerable part-time workers better off not working at all.
  • (8) We feel that Mrs. Savage and Dr. Francome (Dec. 2, p. 1323) provide important information to be considered in the debate about the provision of abortion services.
  • (9) Geller's ads, sharply dividing the world into civilized people and savages, are only intended to hurt and tear fragile relationships apart."
  • (10) A trained economist, and de facto "deputy chancellor" under Gordon Brown between 1997 and 2005, Balls's recent speech at Bloomberg, savaging the "growth deniers" of the Con-Dem coalition and urging a slower pace of fiscal consolidation, was hailed by Martin Wolf ("basically right") and Samuel Brittan ("spot on") of the Financial Times.
  • (11) Then there’s the shift from disability living allowance to the personal independence payment , which last month the public accounts committee savaged as a “fiasco”, leaving many facing six-months delays – and the dying having to wait for weeks for support.
  • (12) The 15-year-old was tortured and savagely beaten before he drowned in a bath at his sister’s flat in east London on Christmas Day 2010.
  • (13) Consequently, after Hartson fed Jason Koumas on the right in the first minute and the ball was cleared to Savage on the edge of the Russian box, Savage whacked at the bouncing ball excitedly.
  • (14) Their policy decisions, including increases in the cost of living, the sale of TIO [Territory Insurance Office], savage cuts to health and education and general arrogance has burned public trust in their integrity and competence,” said Snowdon, who called the party “a joke” and said nobody could take the territory seriously now.
  • (15) At last year’s press launch for Savage Beauty’s homecoming leg Martin Roth, the V&A director, told a story about the day, four years ago, when he landed in New York to see the show there.
  • (16) John Savage 'We were all cycling, listening to the Smiths' Ruth Martin outside the Salford Lads Club, Salford.
  • (17) Iranians complain that it represents them as savage, murderous and warmongering.
  • (18) In the wake of the savage killing of Rigby in broad daylight it emerged that Adebolajo and Adebowale were both known to MI5 – and Adebolajo had been approached on his return from Kenya to the UK to act as an informer and help the security services break up extremist Islamist cells.
  • (19) The FCO's lawyers had already conceded in court that the accounts given by the three Mau Mau veterans – of castration, rape and savage beatings – had been honest accounts, and that senior British and colonial officials had been aware of the ugly truth about daily life in the prison camps of 1950s Kenya.
  • (20) The corporation received 43 complaints after Robinson used the phrase on BBC1's 6pm bulletin on Wednesday, hours after the savage machete attack that killed a serving soldier in London .

Violent


Definition:

  • (a.) Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease.
  • (a.) Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech.
  • (a.) Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal.
  • (n.) An assailant.
  • (v. t.) To urge with violence.
  • (v. i.) To be violent; to act violently.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Certainly not ones with young children accused of non-violent crimes.
  • (2) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
  • (3) The Nigerian government has been heavily criticised for failing to protect civilians in an increasingly violent conflict that left about 10,000 dead last year.
  • (4) When rates were covaried for prior violent crime arrests, White House Case subjects with prior arrests had a significantly higher rate of total posthospitalization violent crime arrests than the matched control sample.
  • (5) The Met said officers would be told to focus less on stopping people for small amounts of cannabis, and instead focus on those suspected of violent offences and carrying weapons.
  • (6) The home secretary, Theresa May, will attend a summit in Washington on tackling violent extremism, called by Barack Obama after the Charlie Hebdo murders in Paris.
  • (7) In five of the six cases a violent contusion in the trochanter region was involved as a result of a fall on a hard surface or a traffic accident.
  • (8) The Bolotnaya Square protest in May was the only one to turn violent in the nearly year-long wave of demonstrations that brought on to the streets tens of thousands of people opposed to Putin's return to the presidency.
  • (9) IPCC found a Gwent police control room operation had downgraded a call relating to her despite police knowing she was trying to escape a violent partner.
  • (10) A case of complete rupture of the pectoralis major after violent trauma is reported.
  • (11) But the president said that the rest of the country had relied for too long on police to do the “dirty work” of containing urban violence and bore responsibility for the violent spectacle in Baltimore.
  • (12) The effects of chronic use seem to be twofold: severe depression with suicidal thoughts and numerous violent, agitated behavioral patterns.
  • (13) Crisis engulfs Gabon hospital founded to atone for colonial crimes Read more At least seven people died and more than 1,000 were arrested in violent protests following the announcement of the election result earlier this month, which the leader of the opposition, Jean Ping, said Bongo, the incumbent, had rigged.
  • (14) Depending on who you talk to, these evictions were either violent or largely peaceful.
  • (15) Where demanded by justice and national security, we will seek to transfer some detainees to the same type of facilities in which we hold all manner of dangerous and violent criminals within our borders – highly secure prisons that ensure the public safety.
  • (16) Data from almost a third of hospital emergency departments found a 12% fall in injuries from violent incidents in 2013.
  • (17) The resulting disturbing, violent or disruptive behavior will severely detract from the quality of life the patient and family can share together.
  • (18) There is also the issue of fair sentencing – if a person has a violent fight in a bar and is sentenced to an IPP with a two year tariff, and then finds himself stuck in the system six years later he has received a punishment three times more severe than the crime he committed in the eyes of the court.
  • (19) Males who believe they consumed alcohol show increased arousal to deviant stimuli (rape, violent erotica) compared to males who are told to expect no alcohol.
  • (20) The long-running dispute over the Senkaku islands – known as the Diaoyu in China – intensified earlier this month after Japan nationalised the territories, resulting in violent anti-Japanese demonstrations in dozens of Chinese cities.