Words that rhyme with savage

• average 5
  adj 1: approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value; "the average income in New England is below that of the nation"; "of average height for his age"; "the mean annual rainfall" [syn: average, mean(a)] 2: lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street" [syn: average, ordinary] 3: lacking exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best" [syn: average, fair, mediocre, middling] 4: around the middle of a scale of evaluation; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "medium bombers" [syn: average, intermediate, medium] 5: relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution; "the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30" [syn: modal(a), average] 6: relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values); "the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20"; "the median income for the year was $15,000" [syn: median(a), average] n 1: a statistic describing the location of a distribution; "it set the norm for American homes" [syn: average, norm] 2: (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities 3: an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual; "he is about average in height"; "the snowfall this month is below average" v 1: amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain; "The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40" [syn: average, average out] 2: achieve or reach on average; "He averaged a C" 3: compute the average of [syn: average, average out]
• carriage 4
  n 1: a railcar where passengers ride [syn: passenger car, coach, carriage] 2: a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses [syn: carriage, equipage, rig] 3: characteristic way of bearing one's body; "stood with good posture" [syn: carriage, bearing, posture] 4: a machine part that carries something else 5: a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around [syn: baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, perambulator, pram, stroller, go-cart, pushchair, pusher]
• salvage 3
  n 1: property or goods saved from damage or destruction 2: the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction 3: the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire v 1: save from ruin, destruction, or harm [syn: salvage, salve, relieve, save] 2: collect discarded or refused material; "She scavenged the garbage cans for food" [syn: salvage, scavenge]
• adage 0
  n 1: a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people [syn: proverb, adage, saw, byword]
• baggage 0
  n 1: cases used to carry belongings when traveling [syn: baggage, luggage] 2: a worthless or immoral woman 3: the portable equipment and supplies of an army
• breakage 0
  n 1: the quantity broken; "the total breakage was huge" 2: reimbursement for goods damaged while in transit or in use 3: the act of breaking something; "the breakage was unavoidable" [syn: breakage, break, breaking]
• budge 0
  n 1: United States tennis player who in 1938 was the first to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles championship in the same year (1915-2000) [syn: Budge, Don Budge, John Donald Budge] v 1: move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat" [syn: stir, shift, budge, agitate]
• cabbage 0
  n 1: any of various types of cabbage [syn: cabbage, chou] 2: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum] 3: any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers [syn: cabbage, cultivated cabbage, Brassica oleracea] v 1: make off with belongings of others [syn: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift]
• cleavage 0
  n 1: the state of being split or cleft; "there was a cleavage between the liberal and conservative members" 2: the breaking of a chemical bond in a molecule resulting in smaller molecules 3: (embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum [syn: cleavage, segmentation] 4: the line formed by a groove between two parts (especially the separation between a woman's breasts) 5: the act of cleaving or splitting
• damage 0
  n 1: the occurrence of a change for the worse [syn: damage, harm, impairment] 2: loss of military equipment [syn: damage, equipment casualty] 3: the act of damaging something or someone [syn: damage, harm, hurt, scathe] 4: the amount of money needed to purchase something; "the price of gasoline"; "he got his new car on excellent terms"; "how much is the damage?" [syn: price, terms, damage] 5: any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right [syn: wrong, legal injury, damage] v 1: inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree" 2: suffer or be susceptible to damage; "These fine china cups damage easily"
• freightage 0
  n 1: the charge for transporting something by common carrier; "we pay the freight"; "the freight rate is usually cheaper" [syn: freight, freightage, freight rate] 2: transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates [syn: freight, freightage]
• havoc 0
  n 1: violent and needless disturbance [syn: havoc, mayhem]
• image 0
  n 1: an iconic mental representation; "her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate" [syn: image, mental image] 2: (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world; "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty" [syn: persona, image] 3: a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface; "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them" [syn: picture, image, icon, ikon] 4: a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father" [syn: prototype, paradigm, epitome, image] 5: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense [syn: trope, figure of speech, figure, image] 6: someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor); "he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the very image of her mother" [syn: double, image, look-alike] 7: (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined; "the image of f(x) = x^2 is the set of all non-negative real numbers if the domain of the function is the set of all real numbers" [syn: image, range, range of a function] 8: the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public; "although her popular image was contrived it served to inspire music and pageantry"; "the company tried to project an altruistic image" 9: a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture); "the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"; "the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone" [syn: effigy, image, simulacrum] v 1: render visible, as by means of MRI 2: imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy" [syn: visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image]
• manage 0
  v 1: be successful; achieve a goal; "She succeeded in persuading us all"; "I managed to carry the box upstairs"; "She pulled it off, even though we never thought her capable of it"; "The pianist negociated the difficult runs" [syn: pull off, negociate, bring off, carry off, manage] [ant: fail] 2: be in charge of, act on, or dispose of; "I can deal with this crew of workers"; "This blender can't handle nuts"; "She managed her parents' affairs after they got too old" [syn: manage, deal, care, handle] 3: come to terms with; "We got by on just a gallon of gas"; "They made do on half a loaf of bread every day" [syn: cope, get by, make out, make do, contend, grapple, deal, manage] 4: watch and direct; "Who is overseeing this project?" [syn: oversee, supervise, superintend, manage] 5: achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods [syn: wangle, finagle, manage] 6: carry on or function; "We could do with a little more help around here" [syn: do, manage] 7: handle effectively; "The burglar wielded an axe"; "The young violinist didn't manage her bow very well" [syn: wield, handle, manage]
• marriage 0
  n 1: the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union" [syn: marriage, matrimony, union, spousal relationship, wedlock] 2: two people who are married to each other; "his second marriage was happier than the first"; "a married couple without love" [syn: marriage, married couple, man and wife] 3: the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony; "their marriage was conducted in the chapel" [syn: marriage, wedding, marriage ceremony] 4: a close and intimate union; "the marriage of music and dance"; "a marriage of ideas"
• package 0
  n 1: a collection of things wrapped or boxed together [syn: package, bundle, packet, parcel] 2: a wrapped container [syn: package, parcel] 3: (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory; "the market for software is expected to expand" [syn: software, software program, computer software, software system, software package, package] [ant: computer hardware, hardware] v 1: put into a box; "box the gift, please" [syn: box, package] [ant: unbox]
• passage 0
  n 1: the act of passing from one state or place to the next [syn: passage, transition] 2: a section of text; particularly a section of medium length 3: a way through or along which someone or something may pass 4: the passing of a law by a legislative body [syn: enactment, passage] 5: a journey usually by ship; "the outward passage took 10 days" [syn: passage, transit] 6: a short section of a musical composition [syn: passage, musical passage] 7: a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass; "the nasal passages" [syn: passage, passageway] 8: a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another; "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the passing of flatus" [syn: passage, passing] 9: the motion of one object relative to another; "stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets" [syn: passing, passage] 10: the act of passing something to another person [syn: passage, handing over]
• ravage 0
  n 1: (usually plural) a destructive action; "the ravages of time"; "the depredations of age and disease" [syn: ravage, depredation] v 1: make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes [syn: harry, ravage] 2: cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion" [syn: lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge]
• selvedge 0
  n 1: border consisting of an ornamental fringe at either end of an oriental carpet [syn: selvage, selvedge] 2: the edge of a fabric that is woven so that it will not ravel or fray [syn: selvage, selvedge]
• vintage 0
  n 1: a season's yield of wine from a vineyard 2: the oldness of wines [syn: vintage, time of origin]
• lavage 0
  n 1: washing out a hollow organ (especially the stomach) by flushing with water
• lovage 0
  n 1: herb native to southern Europe; cultivated for its edible stalks and foliage and seeds [syn: lovage, Levisticum officinale] 2: stalks eaten like celery or candied like angelica; seeds used for flavoring or pickled like capers
• brakeage 1
• trackage 0
• babbage 0
• davidge 0

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