literary a wild and savage animal
There are many wild beasts here, wild pigs without number and many panthers and lions.
He tasted the thrill of the big-game hunter approaching the wild beast's lair.
She saw the wild beast lurking in his eyes.
Some critics derided Matisse as the wild beast who had turned kitten.
If Plato's internal 'wild beast' was denied by Aristotelians, then an external wildbeast had to replace it through projection.
He is a wild beast of a warrior.
He said he had been hunted like a wild beast.
A contemporary account describes how she was exhibited like a wild beast, being obligedto walk, stand or sit as he ordered.
He fights like a wild beast.