Definition of savage in English:

savage

adjective ˈsavɪdʒˈsævɪdʒ

1(of an animal or force of nature) fierce, violent, and uncontrolled.
（动物，自然力）凶猛的；猛烈的
packs of savage dogs roamed the streets
Example sentencesExamples
- They say that music soothes the savage beast, but it can also make the sick feel better.
- Tonight, she cheated death by inches when a savage mountain lion attacked.
- How do you understand the savage cruelty shown by the captors to their prisoners?
- Young children would be fed to the savage dogs of Persavoran fame.
- One would think that they were getting ready to unlock the cage of some savage beast.
- The two combatants charged at each other with weapons drawn and fought like savage beasts.
- There was a savage dog that barked at me, but at least I had a rest from the hill.
- He shuddered at the thought of those savage beasts.
- But life among the dogs was savage; no law existed but that of fang and force.
- He looked very much like a savage creature, with his wild, shaggy black hair and infuriated and crazed grin.
- These fierce and savage warriors actually consisted of Jutes, Friesians, Angles and Saxons.
- The alleged victim also claims he was dragged backstage where the savage attack continued.
- A savage attack left me with post-traumatic stress disorder.
- One could never estimate what damage such a natural savage force might bring.
- The savage attack has been classified as a hate crime by the Police Department.
- Writers from La Bruyère to Zola may have likened peasants to savage beasts, but in fact, even within the social structure of the old regime, it was possible for rural productivity to rise significantly.
- He explained some things about the human mind, and how mankind began originally as savage hunters, fighting for their food and anything that got in their way.
- We had terrible visions of savage marauders destroying sacred idols, throwing them around with vicious glee.
- I saw the transformation take place, the placid exterior to the violent, savage beast.
- The horrible noises of the savage beasts filled them with fear.
Synonyms
ferocious, fierce
wild, untamed, undomesticated, feral
predatory, ravening
1. 1.1 Cruel and vicious; aggressively hostile.
  凶残的；恶毒的
  a savage attack on the government
  Example sentencesExamples
  His natural gift for writing led him to enjoy hurling savage personal abuse at his Tory opponents, but he was not pleased when his attacks were returned with interest.
  The actor has launched a savage attack on Hollywood - saying the film industry is full of racists.
  Even his old financial wizardry was in doubt: two loans floated in August failed miserably after savage criticism in the Assembly.
  The background of Silvia Prieto is the savage capitalism of the market economy while in La ciénaga it is the decrepit world of traditional rural economies.
  It is a savage indictment of American political consciousness from one of the most underrated of British film-makers.
  The Servant is a savage indictment of the English class system, and its waning hold over all aspects of the working and cultural life of Britain.
  After five years he escaped to America, from where he continued his savage denunciations of British policy in Ireland and around the world.
  The publication of the book had brought, besides savage criticism and attack, a compensatory leavening of pleasant new literary acquaintances in its wake.
  It is a savage attack on the archetypical French liberal bourgeois.
  Both couples suffer in unhappy marriages, and they deal with their situations through denial, deceit, and savage personal attacks.
  His influence on both reports was very great and he was appointed secretary to the Poor Law Commission in 1834, a post which brought him savage criticism.
  This was a cynical and savage attack on the manufactured pop band culture of the 1990s.
  The reality is that he lost the confidence of the company, was attacked by leading artists and attracted a savage motion in the House of Commons which together made his position untenable.
  We tried to have a debate on serious historical presidents, and you make it into a savage attack on the current president.
  Having clarified that, we cannot remain silent during what appears to be a ruthless and savage attack by the media on Charlie's character.
  Synonyms
  vicious, brutal, cruel, sadistic, ferocious, fierce, violent, bloody, murderous, homicidal, bloodthirsty, bestial, brutish, barbaric, barbarous, merciless, ruthless, pitiless, heartless, inhuman, harsh, callous, cold-blooded
  archaic fell, sanguinary
  fierce, blistering, scathing, searing, stinging, devastating, mordant, trenchant, caustic, cutting, biting, withering, virulent, vitriolic
2(of something bad or negative) very great; severe.
（坏事）极大的；严重的
the decision was a savage blow for the town
Example sentencesExamples
- Officials said negotiators had been close to agreement when the IMF made new demands for savage budget cuts.
- His first period in office as Prime Minister is best known for his savage repression of labour unrest, which earned him the hostility of the Socialist Party and left him little time for social reform.
- Other service industries are reacting to excess capacity and weak demand with savage price wars, further depressing prices.
- But life had dealt them, and Radio Kilkenny, a savage blow, a knockout punch.
- The company's near demise paralleled the savage downturn in market demand, aggravated by an unsupportable overhead structure.
- Women are often subjected to a savage and unexpected attack of the maternal instinct in their late thirties and sometimes those who have chosen not to have children come to regret it.
- The company has announced a savage price cut of its videogame system.
Synonyms
severe, crushing, devastating, crippling, terrible, awful, dreadful, dire, catastrophic, calamitous, ruinous
mortal, lethal, fatal
3(chiefly in historical or literary contexts) primitive; uncivilized.
〈主史/文〉原始的，未开化的
Example sentencesExamples
- Then he tells her of his wild tales of the savage barbarian Conan, and she sees the fire in his eyes.
- Some people argue that capital punishment is a savage act and must be abolished in every state.
- It set all England talking about contemporary painting, and sent the more alert not only to Paris but to museums and collections where they could have a look at primitive, oriental and savage art.
Synonyms
primitive, uncivilized, unenlightened, non-literate, in a state of nature, heathen
wild, barbarian, barbarous, barbaric
archaic rude
1. 3.1 (of a place) wild-looking and inhospitable; uncultivated.
  （地方）荒凉的；未开发的
  Example sentencesExamples
  The scene was one of powerful and savage beauty.
  They turned useless prairies into golden wheat fields, their wagons into powerful locomotives, and a savage wilderness into a network of commerce and trade.
  Playwright Edward Bond supplied sinewy dialogue, but nothing could compete with Roeg's startling images of fierce orange suns, lizards and insects, and savage terrain.
  I lived in northern, wild, savage England, just on the cusp of being Scotland.
  I don't want to stay forever lost in this savage wilderness.
  Bridget bought me a very complicated-looking pair of hiking boots, for all the savage terrain I am likely to encounter.
  Namibia's landscape has a savage grandeur unlike that of any other African country.
  Hot and dry in summer, bitterly cold and exposed in winter, the Cevennes may be a harsh and unforgiving land but it possesses a raw, savage and inspiring beauty.
  Synonyms
  rugged, rough, wild, inhospitable, uninhabitable

noun ˈsavɪdʒˈsævɪdʒ

1(chiefly in historical or literary contexts) a member of a people regarded as primitive and uncivilized.
〈主史/文〉原始的，未开化的
Example sentencesExamples
- His belief that slaves were better off in American chains than in African freedom reflected anthropological ignorance expressed in the blind assumption that all Africans were savages.
- It was generally accepted that different rules applied when fighting savages than in warfare between European powers.
- In the mythology of ancient China, Han, the Chinese man, is distinguished from savages and barbarians by two features of his eating habits: he eats cereals and uses fire to process his food.
- Under Jack's rule, the boys become uncivilized savages.
- It is commonly said that it shows how thin is the veneer of civilisation and how readily we humans can return to the state of primitive savages or animals and once again become blindly destructive.
- Shakespeare is not a partisan of the noble savage who lives by instinct alone: rather, it is the savage in man that he fears and detests.
- Oh yes, they were hopeless philistines, little better than savages actually.
- Though destined for success, the novel at first met with criticism: Kostylev was accused of simplifying Ivan's character and portraying Russians as savages.
- The incident scandalised Europeans at the time - a white woman at the mercy of brown savages - and a punitive expedition slaughtered scores of Maori in rescuing her.
- The film's black characters (many of them white actors in blackface) are either servile or savages.
- Colonial forces brought the Bible to the heathen and civilization to the savage.
- The farmers in their turn described the Bedouin as savages and pagans.
- He'd been told that they are thieves, savages, and barbarians.
- Filson depicted the Kentucky frontier as a howling wilderness inhabited by wild beasts and uncivilized savages.
- The people there are savages, but they don't attack often.
- Not surprisingly, it's a delicate issue for Native Americans, considering the once-prevalent stereotypes of Indians as marauding savages.
- A savage, if could understand it, would worship it as a god.
- To be thus condescended to by heathen savages was intolerable.
- The Mongols were pagan, brutal savages who were not to be trusted, he declared.
- Those who feel whiteness is not worth analysing should investigate how English stereotypes of the Irish as savages became the model for racist profiling of Africans and Asians during the Empire.
Synonyms
barbarian, wild man, wild woman, primitive, heathen
cannibal
2A brutal or vicious person.
凶狠恶毒的人；野蛮的人
the mother of one of the victims has described his assailants as savages
一个受害者的母亲把攻击者形容成野蛮人。
Example sentencesExamples
- The problem is at heart we're basically just savages, animals, and always will be, ready to use violence to solve all our problems, no matter what the consequences might be.
- They are heartless savages and even less than animals.
- Close up, they didn't look at all like the vicious savages she had encountered when she first came here.
Synonyms
brute, beast, monster, barbarian, ogre, demon, sadist, animal
3Heraldry
A representation of a bearded and semi-naked man with a wreath of leaves.
〔纹章〕长须半裸带叶环男人形

verb ˈsavɪdʒˈsævɪdʒ

[with object]

1(especially of a dog or wild animal) attack ferociously and maul.
（尤指狗、野生动物）凶猛攻击，伤害
police are rounding up dogs after a girl was savaged
一个小女孩被咬伤后，警察正在围捕狗。
Example sentencesExamples
- Nature's brutal and unforgiving approach is most evident when the orca whale savages a newly born grey whale and its mother, tearing away the whole baby's outer jaw in one swift motion.
- If it's our ewe your dog is savaging that setout man may be saving you $125 and my wife's formidable wrath.
- There could be no liability for a dog known to be vicious until after it had managed to savage someone.
- Jebb - though not McLaren - also points to another grievance, in Aboriginal camp dogs, sometimes numbering thirty or more, savaging the stock.
- Wilson tried to toss his coat over the dog to subdue it, but the dog savaged his hand and wrist until J.M. shot it.
- While still intact for the most part, the body has been chewed and savaged brutally.
- Helen treats the fact that the bear has savaged her hands and reduced them to bleeding stumps as a minor inconvenience.
- The lions chased him, and savaged his leg before he fell into a thorn bush too dense for them to reach him.
- People are still savaged by dogs, but the topic is no longer fashionable.
- We'd have heard if people were being savaged by vulpine man-eaters.
- In the meantime, the bear that savaged Mitch also makes a return and is taken into captivity, bringing back another ghost from Einar's past.
- The family's cat, she said, had savaged the bird, and one wing had been torn.
- The dog savaged the plaintiff when she entered the yard at night with her boyfriend who worked there.
Synonyms
maul, attack, tear to pieces, lacerate, claw, bite, mutilate, mangle
worry
1. 1.1 Subject to a vicious verbal attack; criticize brutally.
  激烈的言词攻击；猛烈批评
  he savaged the government for wasting billions in their failed bid to prop up the pound
  他猛烈抨击政府浪费数十亿支撑英镑的失败努力。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Perhaps no other great European choreographer, save Roland Petit, has been as neglected and critically savaged in the United States.
  Critics are savaging a government-funded course in Birmingham where grown-ups are being taught how to text and download ringtones.
  Most critics savaged his comedy when it was released last fall, but really, what were they expecting?
  Critics across the country savaged the film upon its initial release, dismissing it as directionless and dreary.
  As someone who has written more than his share of omnibus reviews/poetry chronicles, especially for this magazine, I know the temptation reviewers are subject to by way of savaging thin volumes of verse.
  Critics are going to savage this film out of respect to Charade and that's not really fair.
  It hardly seems to matter that the critics have universally savaged this show.
  The book, influenced greatly by him, had largely been savaged by Australian critics and I wanted to see what he himself would make of it.
  As Toronto theatre critics dispense increasingly disparate opinions, some shows are savaged in one rag and lionized in another.
  No one savaged the law's delays and inequities more energetically than Dickens, yet no one worried more about the results of revolution and lawlessness.
  Alexander fully expects to be savaged by reviewers again.
  Critics have, predictably, savaged the story, but everyone agrees the show is spectacular.
  Pundits lost no time in savaging the weakness of the script, the poverty of the acting and shambolic directing.
  Marxist critics savaged La Strada as an abandonment of neorealist principles, but as a director, Fellini was never really a neorealist to begin with.
  As predicted by many US pundits prior to its release, the film has been relentlessly savaged by the critics, and looks like a surefire contender for one of the worst movies of the year.
  Rarely in the history of magazines has a former editor so savaged his successor.
  The $10.5 million show, a haphazard pastiche of various famous Dr. Seuss stories, had been savaged by critics when it debuted in late November.
  I have had occasion over the years to savage this or that actor or screenwriter or director in print as part of my work as a film critic.
  And the celebrity in question is violently torn down from their pedestal, savaged for as long as it pleases people, and finally cast aside, no longer of any use to anyone,
  Popular British and Australian historians have savaged the commanders at the Dardanelles as cold-blooded murderers.
  Synonyms
  criticize severely, attack, lambaste, condemn, flay, shoot down, pillory, revile
  informal jump on, tear to pieces, take to pieces, take/pull apart, lay into, pitch into, hammer, slam, bash, do a hatchet job on, crucify, give something a battering, roast, skewer, throw brickbats at, knock
  British informal slate, rubbish, slag off, monster
  North American informal bad-mouth, pummel
  Australian/New Zealand informal trash, bag, give someone bondi
  archaic excoriate, slash

Derivatives

savagedom

noun

savageness

noun ˈsavɪdʒnəsˈsævɪdʒnəs

Presentation is bland and the lack of graphic detail just doesn't do justice to the obvious savageness of the creatures.
Example sentencesExamples
- No sooner had he arrived than the isolation tore away his civilized exterior and made his inner savageness emerge.
- They are very good natured animals when domesticated, but I believe it to be impossible to cure that savageness, which all I have seen seem to possess.
- The empress's voice filled with a savageness Nell wasn't accustomed to hearing.
- I would argue that the violence in the Middle East is pretty mild mannered compared to the savageness occurring in Gujarat, a province in Northwestern India.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French sauvage 'wild', from Latin silvaticus 'of the woods', from silva 'a wood'.

According to the origin of the name, savages live in woods. Savage derives from Latin silva ‘a wood’, the source also of the literary word sylvan (mid 16th century), and perhaps of sylph (mid 17th century), an imaginary spirit of the air. The overtones of savage are usually negative, suggesting violence and cruelty, but in the later 18th century the French writer and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78) conceived the idea of the noble savage, an idealized being without the corrupting influence of civilization, showing the natural goodness of humankind.

Rhymes

ravage

Definition of savage in US English:

savage

adjectiveˈsavijˈsævɪdʒ

1(of an animal or force of nature) fierce, violent, and uncontrolled.
（动物，自然力）凶猛的；猛烈的
tales of a savage beast
a week of savage storms
Example sentencesExamples
- He shuddered at the thought of those savage beasts.
- He looked very much like a savage creature, with his wild, shaggy black hair and infuriated and crazed grin.
- The horrible noises of the savage beasts filled them with fear.
- They say that music soothes the savage beast, but it can also make the sick feel better.
- Writers from La Bruyère to Zola may have likened peasants to savage beasts, but in fact, even within the social structure of the old regime, it was possible for rural productivity to rise significantly.
- The alleged victim also claims he was dragged backstage where the savage attack continued.
- There was a savage dog that barked at me, but at least I had a rest from the hill.
- One could never estimate what damage such a natural savage force might bring.
- But life among the dogs was savage; no law existed but that of fang and force.
- The two combatants charged at each other with weapons drawn and fought like savage beasts.
- These fierce and savage warriors actually consisted of Jutes, Friesians, Angles and Saxons.
- A savage attack left me with post-traumatic stress disorder.
- I saw the transformation take place, the placid exterior to the violent, savage beast.
- Young children would be fed to the savage dogs of Persavoran fame.
- Tonight, she cheated death by inches when a savage mountain lion attacked.
- He explained some things about the human mind, and how mankind began originally as savage hunters, fighting for their food and anything that got in their way.
- The savage attack has been classified as a hate crime by the Police Department.
- One would think that they were getting ready to unlock the cage of some savage beast.
- We had terrible visions of savage marauders destroying sacred idols, throwing them around with vicious glee.
- How do you understand the savage cruelty shown by the captors to their prisoners?
Synonyms
ferocious, fierce
1. 1.1 Cruel and vicious; aggressively hostile.
  凶残的；恶毒的
  they launched a savage attack on the budget
  他们对预算案发起猛烈攻击。
  Example sentencesExamples
  This was a cynical and savage attack on the manufactured pop band culture of the 1990s.
  The reality is that he lost the confidence of the company, was attacked by leading artists and attracted a savage motion in the House of Commons which together made his position untenable.
  Even his old financial wizardry was in doubt: two loans floated in August failed miserably after savage criticism in the Assembly.
  Having clarified that, we cannot remain silent during what appears to be a ruthless and savage attack by the media on Charlie's character.
  The publication of the book had brought, besides savage criticism and attack, a compensatory leavening of pleasant new literary acquaintances in its wake.
  It is a savage indictment of American political consciousness from one of the most underrated of British film-makers.
  The Servant is a savage indictment of the English class system, and its waning hold over all aspects of the working and cultural life of Britain.
  His natural gift for writing led him to enjoy hurling savage personal abuse at his Tory opponents, but he was not pleased when his attacks were returned with interest.
  It is a savage attack on the archetypical French liberal bourgeois.
  We tried to have a debate on serious historical presidents, and you make it into a savage attack on the current president.
  After five years he escaped to America, from where he continued his savage denunciations of British policy in Ireland and around the world.
  His influence on both reports was very great and he was appointed secretary to the Poor Law Commission in 1834, a post which brought him savage criticism.
  Both couples suffer in unhappy marriages, and they deal with their situations through denial, deceit, and savage personal attacks.
  The background of Silvia Prieto is the savage capitalism of the market economy while in La ciénaga it is the decrepit world of traditional rural economies.
  The actor has launched a savage attack on Hollywood - saying the film industry is full of racists.
  Synonyms
  vicious, brutal, cruel, sadistic, ferocious, fierce, violent, bloody, murderous, homicidal, bloodthirsty, bestial, brutish, barbaric, barbarous, merciless, ruthless, pitiless, heartless, inhuman, harsh, callous, cold-blooded
  fierce, blistering, scathing, searing, stinging, devastating, mordant, trenchant, caustic, cutting, biting, withering, virulent, vitriolic
2. 1.2 (chiefly in historical or literary contexts) primitive; uncivilized.
  〈主史/文〉原始的，未开化的
  Example sentencesExamples
  It set all England talking about contemporary painting, and sent the more alert not only to Paris but to museums and collections where they could have a look at primitive, oriental and savage art.
  Some people argue that capital punishment is a savage act and must be abolished in every state.
  Then he tells her of his wild tales of the savage barbarian Conan, and she sees the fire in his eyes.
  Synonyms
  primitive, uncivilized, unenlightened, non-literate, in a state of nature, heathen
3. 1.3 (of a place) wild-looking and inhospitable; uncultivated.
  （地方）荒凉的；未开发的
  Example sentencesExamples
  Bridget bought me a very complicated-looking pair of hiking boots, for all the savage terrain I am likely to encounter.
  I don't want to stay forever lost in this savage wilderness.
  I lived in northern, wild, savage England, just on the cusp of being Scotland.
  Namibia's landscape has a savage grandeur unlike that of any other African country.
  Hot and dry in summer, bitterly cold and exposed in winter, the Cevennes may be a harsh and unforgiving land but it possesses a raw, savage and inspiring beauty.
  The scene was one of powerful and savage beauty.
  They turned useless prairies into golden wheat fields, their wagons into powerful locomotives, and a savage wilderness into a network of commerce and trade.
  Playwright Edward Bond supplied sinewy dialogue, but nothing could compete with Roeg's startling images of fierce orange suns, lizards and insects, and savage terrain.
  Synonyms
  rugged, rough, wild, inhospitable, uninhabitable
4. 1.4 (of something bad or negative) very great; severe.
  （坏事）极大的；严重的
  this would deal a savage blow to the government's fight
  这将会给政府的斗争以极大打击。
  Example sentencesExamples
  His first period in office as Prime Minister is best known for his savage repression of labour unrest, which earned him the hostility of the Socialist Party and left him little time for social reform.
  Officials said negotiators had been close to agreement when the IMF made new demands for savage budget cuts.
  Other service industries are reacting to excess capacity and weak demand with savage price wars, further depressing prices.
  Women are often subjected to a savage and unexpected attack of the maternal instinct in their late thirties and sometimes those who have chosen not to have children come to regret it.
  But life had dealt them, and Radio Kilkenny, a savage blow, a knockout punch.
  The company has announced a savage price cut of its videogame system.
  The company's near demise paralleled the savage downturn in market demand, aggravated by an unsupportable overhead structure.
  Synonyms
  severe, crushing, devastating, crippling, terrible, awful, dreadful, dire, catastrophic, calamitous, ruinous

nounˈsavijˈsævɪdʒ

1(chiefly in historical or literary contexts) a member of a people regarded as primitive and uncivilized.
〈主史/文〉原始的，未开化的
Example sentencesExamples
- In the mythology of ancient China, Han, the Chinese man, is distinguished from savages and barbarians by two features of his eating habits: he eats cereals and uses fire to process his food.
- Colonial forces brought the Bible to the heathen and civilization to the savage.
- Shakespeare is not a partisan of the noble savage who lives by instinct alone: rather, it is the savage in man that he fears and detests.
- He'd been told that they are thieves, savages, and barbarians.
- It was generally accepted that different rules applied when fighting savages than in warfare between European powers.
- The film's black characters (many of them white actors in blackface) are either servile or savages.
- Not surprisingly, it's a delicate issue for Native Americans, considering the once-prevalent stereotypes of Indians as marauding savages.
- A savage, if could understand it, would worship it as a god.
- Filson depicted the Kentucky frontier as a howling wilderness inhabited by wild beasts and uncivilized savages.
- The farmers in their turn described the Bedouin as savages and pagans.
- The people there are savages, but they don't attack often.
- It is commonly said that it shows how thin is the veneer of civilisation and how readily we humans can return to the state of primitive savages or animals and once again become blindly destructive.
- Those who feel whiteness is not worth analysing should investigate how English stereotypes of the Irish as savages became the model for racist profiling of Africans and Asians during the Empire.
- The incident scandalised Europeans at the time - a white woman at the mercy of brown savages - and a punitive expedition slaughtered scores of Maori in rescuing her.
- To be thus condescended to by heathen savages was intolerable.
- His belief that slaves were better off in American chains than in African freedom reflected anthropological ignorance expressed in the blind assumption that all Africans were savages.
- Under Jack's rule, the boys become uncivilized savages.
- Though destined for success, the novel at first met with criticism: Kostylev was accused of simplifying Ivan's character and portraying Russians as savages.
- The Mongols were pagan, brutal savages who were not to be trusted, he declared.
- Oh yes, they were hopeless philistines, little better than savages actually.
Synonyms
barbarian, wild man, wild woman, primitive, heathen
1. 1.1 A brutal or vicious person.
  凶狠恶毒的人；野蛮的人
  the mother of one of the victims has described his assailants as savages
  一个受害者的母亲把攻击者形容成野蛮人。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The problem is at heart we're basically just savages, animals, and always will be, ready to use violence to solve all our problems, no matter what the consequences might be.
  They are heartless savages and even less than animals.
  Close up, they didn't look at all like the vicious savages she had encountered when she first came here.
  Synonyms
  brute, beast, monster, barbarian, ogre, demon, sadist, animal

verbˈsavijˈsævɪdʒ

[with object]

1(especially of a dog or wild animal) attack ferociously and maul.
（尤指狗、野生动物）凶猛攻击，伤害
ewes savaged by marauding dogs
Example sentencesExamples
- Nature's brutal and unforgiving approach is most evident when the orca whale savages a newly born grey whale and its mother, tearing away the whole baby's outer jaw in one swift motion.
- Helen treats the fact that the bear has savaged her hands and reduced them to bleeding stumps as a minor inconvenience.
- While still intact for the most part, the body has been chewed and savaged brutally.
- The lions chased him, and savaged his leg before he fell into a thorn bush too dense for them to reach him.
- There could be no liability for a dog known to be vicious until after it had managed to savage someone.
- Wilson tried to toss his coat over the dog to subdue it, but the dog savaged his hand and wrist until J.M. shot it.
- The dog savaged the plaintiff when she entered the yard at night with her boyfriend who worked there.
- We'd have heard if people were being savaged by vulpine man-eaters.
- In the meantime, the bear that savaged Mitch also makes a return and is taken into captivity, bringing back another ghost from Einar's past.
- The family's cat, she said, had savaged the bird, and one wing had been torn.
- If it's our ewe your dog is savaging that setout man may be saving you $125 and my wife's formidable wrath.
- People are still savaged by dogs, but the topic is no longer fashionable.
- Jebb - though not McLaren - also points to another grievance, in Aboriginal camp dogs, sometimes numbering thirty or more, savaging the stock.
Synonyms
maul, attack, tear to pieces, lacerate, claw, bite, mutilate, mangle
1. 1.1 Subject to a vicious verbal attack; criticize brutally.
  激烈的言词攻击；猛烈批评
  Fowler savaged her in his next review
  Example sentencesExamples
  As someone who has written more than his share of omnibus reviews/poetry chronicles, especially for this magazine, I know the temptation reviewers are subject to by way of savaging thin volumes of verse.
  Rarely in the history of magazines has a former editor so savaged his successor.
  Marxist critics savaged La Strada as an abandonment of neorealist principles, but as a director, Fellini was never really a neorealist to begin with.
  It hardly seems to matter that the critics have universally savaged this show.
  Critics across the country savaged the film upon its initial release, dismissing it as directionless and dreary.
  Pundits lost no time in savaging the weakness of the script, the poverty of the acting and shambolic directing.
  Alexander fully expects to be savaged by reviewers again.
  As Toronto theatre critics dispense increasingly disparate opinions, some shows are savaged in one rag and lionized in another.
  Critics are going to savage this film out of respect to Charade and that's not really fair.
  I have had occasion over the years to savage this or that actor or screenwriter or director in print as part of my work as a film critic.
  Popular British and Australian historians have savaged the commanders at the Dardanelles as cold-blooded murderers.
  The $10.5 million show, a haphazard pastiche of various famous Dr. Seuss stories, had been savaged by critics when it debuted in late November.
  And the celebrity in question is violently torn down from their pedestal, savaged for as long as it pleases people, and finally cast aside, no longer of any use to anyone,
  Critics have, predictably, savaged the story, but everyone agrees the show is spectacular.
  Most critics savaged his comedy when it was released last fall, but really, what were they expecting?
  No one savaged the law's delays and inequities more energetically than Dickens, yet no one worried more about the results of revolution and lawlessness.
  Critics are savaging a government-funded course in Birmingham where grown-ups are being taught how to text and download ringtones.
  As predicted by many US pundits prior to its release, the film has been relentlessly savaged by the critics, and looks like a surefire contender for one of the worst movies of the year.
  The book, influenced greatly by him, had largely been savaged by Australian critics and I wanted to see what he himself would make of it.
  Perhaps no other great European choreographer, save Roland Petit, has been as neglected and critically savaged in the United States.
  Synonyms
  criticize severely, attack, lambaste, condemn, flay, shoot down, pillory, revile

Origin

Middle English: from Old French sauvage ‘wild’, from Latin silvaticus ‘of the woods’, from silva ‘a wood’.

词汇	savage
释义	Definition of savage in English: savage adjective ˈsavɪdʒˈsævɪdʒ 1(of an animal or force of nature) fierce, violent, and uncontrolled. （动物，自然力）凶猛的；猛烈的 packs of savage dogs roamed the streets Example sentencesExamples They say that music soothes the savage beast, but it can also make the sick feel better. Tonight, she cheated death by inches when a savage mountain lion attacked. How do you understand the savage cruelty shown by the captors to their prisoners? Young children would be fed to the savage dogs of Persavoran fame. One would think that they were getting ready to unlock the cage of some savage beast. The two combatants charged at each other with weapons drawn and fought like savage beasts. There was a savage dog that barked at me, but at least I had a rest from the hill. He shuddered at the thought of those savage beasts. But life among the dogs was savage; no law existed but that of fang and force. He looked very much like a savage creature, with his wild, shaggy black hair and infuriated and crazed grin. These fierce and savage warriors actually consisted of Jutes, Friesians, Angles and Saxons. The alleged victim also claims he was dragged backstage where the savage attack continued. A savage attack left me with post-traumatic stress disorder. One could never estimate what damage such a natural savage force might bring. The savage attack has been classified as a hate crime by the Police Department. Writers from La Bruyère to Zola may have likened peasants to savage beasts, but in fact, even within the social structure of the old regime, it was possible for rural productivity to rise significantly. He explained some things about the human mind, and how mankind began originally as savage hunters, fighting for their food and anything that got in their way. We had terrible visions of savage marauders destroying sacred idols, throwing them around with vicious glee. I saw the transformation take place, the placid exterior to the violent, savage beast. The horrible noises of the savage beasts filled them with fear. Synonyms ferocious, fierce wild, untamed, undomesticated, feral predatory, ravening 1.1 Cruel and vicious; aggressively hostile. 凶残的；恶毒的 a savage attack on the government Example sentencesExamples His natural gift for writing led him to enjoy hurling savage personal abuse at his Tory opponents, but he was not pleased when his attacks were returned with interest. The actor has launched a savage attack on Hollywood - saying the film industry is full of racists. Even his old financial wizardry was in doubt: two loans floated in August failed miserably after savage criticism in the Assembly. The background of Silvia Prieto is the savage capitalism of the market economy while in La ciénaga it is the decrepit world of traditional rural economies. It is a savage indictment of American political consciousness from one of the most underrated of British film-makers. The Servant is a savage indictment of the English class system, and its waning hold over all aspects of the working and cultural life of Britain. After five years he escaped to America, from where he continued his savage denunciations of British policy in Ireland and around the world. The publication of the book had brought, besides savage criticism and attack, a compensatory leavening of pleasant new literary acquaintances in its wake. It is a savage attack on the archetypical French liberal bourgeois. Both couples suffer in unhappy marriages, and they deal with their situations through denial, deceit, and savage personal attacks. His influence on both reports was very great and he was appointed secretary to the Poor Law Commission in 1834, a post which brought him savage criticism. This was a cynical and savage attack on the manufactured pop band culture of the 1990s. The reality is that he lost the confidence of the company, was attacked by leading artists and attracted a savage motion in the House of Commons which together made his position untenable. We tried to have a debate on serious historical presidents, and you make it into a savage attack on the current president. Having clarified that, we cannot remain silent during what appears to be a ruthless and savage attack by the media on Charlie's character. Synonyms vicious, brutal, cruel, sadistic, ferocious, fierce, violent, bloody, murderous, homicidal, bloodthirsty, bestial, brutish, barbaric, barbarous, merciless, ruthless, pitiless, heartless, inhuman, harsh, callous, cold-blooded archaic fell, sanguinary fierce, blistering, scathing, searing, stinging, devastating, mordant, trenchant, caustic, cutting, biting, withering, virulent, vitriolic 2(of something bad or negative) very great; severe. （坏事）极大的；严重的 the decision was a savage blow for the town Example sentencesExamples Officials said negotiators had been close to agreement when the IMF made new demands for savage budget cuts. His first period in office as Prime Minister is best known for his savage repression of labour unrest, which earned him the hostility of the Socialist Party and left him little time for social reform. Other service industries are reacting to excess capacity and weak demand with savage price wars, further depressing prices. But life had dealt them, and Radio Kilkenny, a savage blow, a knockout punch. The company's near demise paralleled the savage downturn in market demand, aggravated by an unsupportable overhead structure. Women are often subjected to a savage and unexpected attack of the maternal instinct in their late thirties and sometimes those who have chosen not to have children come to regret it. The company has announced a savage price cut of its videogame system. Synonyms severe, crushing, devastating, crippling, terrible, awful, dreadful, dire, catastrophic, calamitous, ruinous mortal, lethal, fatal 3(chiefly in historical or literary contexts) primitive; uncivilized. 〈主史/文〉原始的，未开化的 Example sentencesExamples Then he tells her of his wild tales of the savage barbarian Conan, and she sees the fire in his eyes. Some people argue that capital punishment is a savage act and must be abolished in every state. It set all England talking about contemporary painting, and sent the more alert not only to Paris but to museums and collections where they could have a look at primitive, oriental and savage art. Synonyms primitive, uncivilized, unenlightened, non-literate, in a state of nature, heathen wild, barbarian, barbarous, barbaric archaic rude 3.1 (of a place) wild-looking and inhospitable; uncultivated. （地方）荒凉的；未开发的 Example sentencesExamples The scene was one of powerful and savage beauty. They turned useless prairies into golden wheat fields, their wagons into powerful locomotives, and a savage wilderness into a network of commerce and trade. Playwright Edward Bond supplied sinewy dialogue, but nothing could compete with Roeg's startling images of fierce orange suns, lizards and insects, and savage terrain. I lived in northern, wild, savage England, just on the cusp of being Scotland. I don't want to stay forever lost in this savage wilderness. Bridget bought me a very complicated-looking pair of hiking boots, for all the savage terrain I am likely to encounter. Namibia's landscape has a savage grandeur unlike that of any other African country. Hot and dry in summer, bitterly cold and exposed in winter, the Cevennes may be a harsh and unforgiving land but it possesses a raw, savage and inspiring beauty. Synonyms rugged, rough, wild, inhospitable, uninhabitable noun ˈsavɪdʒˈsævɪdʒ 1(chiefly in historical or literary contexts) a member of a people regarded as primitive and uncivilized. 〈主史/文〉原始的，未开化的 Example sentencesExamples His belief that slaves were better off in American chains than in African freedom reflected anthropological ignorance expressed in the blind assumption that all Africans were savages. It was generally accepted that different rules applied when fighting savages than in warfare between European powers. In the mythology of ancient China, Han, the Chinese man, is distinguished from savages and barbarians by two features of his eating habits: he eats cereals and uses fire to process his food. Under Jack's rule, the boys become uncivilized savages. It is commonly said that it shows how thin is the veneer of civilisation and how readily we humans can return to the state of primitive savages or animals and once again become blindly destructive. Shakespeare is not a partisan of the noble savage who lives by instinct alone: rather, it is the savage in man that he fears and detests. Oh yes, they were hopeless philistines, little better than savages actually. Though destined for success, the novel at first met with criticism: Kostylev was accused of simplifying Ivan's character and portraying Russians as savages. The incident scandalised Europeans at the time - a white woman at the mercy of brown savages - and a punitive expedition slaughtered scores of Maori in rescuing her. The film's black characters (many of them white actors in blackface) are either servile or savages. Colonial forces brought the Bible to the heathen and civilization to the savage. The farmers in their turn described the Bedouin as savages and pagans. He'd been told that they are thieves, savages, and barbarians. Filson depicted the Kentucky frontier as a howling wilderness inhabited by wild beasts and uncivilized savages. The people there are savages, but they don't attack often. Not surprisingly, it's a delicate issue for Native Americans, considering the once-prevalent stereotypes of Indians as marauding savages. A savage, if could understand it, would worship it as a god. To be thus condescended to by heathen savages was intolerable. The Mongols were pagan, brutal savages who were not to be trusted, he declared. Those who feel whiteness is not worth analysing should investigate how English stereotypes of the Irish as savages became the model for racist profiling of Africans and Asians during the Empire. Synonyms barbarian, wild man, wild woman, primitive, heathen cannibal 2A brutal or vicious person. 凶狠恶毒的人；野蛮的人 the mother of one of the victims has described his assailants as savages 一个受害者的母亲把攻击者形容成野蛮人。 Example sentencesExamples The problem is at heart we're basically just savages, animals, and always will be, ready to use violence to solve all our problems, no matter what the consequences might be. They are heartless savages and even less than animals. Close up, they didn't look at all like the vicious savages she had encountered when she first came here. Synonyms brute, beast, monster, barbarian, ogre, demon, sadist, animal 3Heraldry A representation of a bearded and semi-naked man with a wreath of leaves. 〔纹章〕长须半裸带叶环男人形 verb ˈsavɪdʒˈsævɪdʒ [with object] 1(especially of a dog or wild animal) attack ferociously and maul. （尤指狗、野生动物）凶猛攻击，伤害 police are rounding up dogs after a girl was savaged 一个小女孩被咬伤后，警察正在围捕狗。 Example sentencesExamples Nature's brutal and unforgiving approach is most evident when the orca whale savages a newly born grey whale and its mother, tearing away the whole baby's outer jaw in one swift motion. If it's our ewe your dog is savaging that setout man may be saving you $125 and my wife's formidable wrath. There could be no liability for a dog known to be vicious until after it had managed to savage someone. Jebb - though not McLaren - also points to another grievance, in Aboriginal camp dogs, sometimes numbering thirty or more, savaging the stock. Wilson tried to toss his coat over the dog to subdue it, but the dog savaged his hand and wrist until J.M. shot it. While still intact for the most part, the body has been chewed and savaged brutally. Helen treats the fact that the bear has savaged her hands and reduced them to bleeding stumps as a minor inconvenience. The lions chased him, and savaged his leg before he fell into a thorn bush too dense for them to reach him. People are still savaged by dogs, but the topic is no longer fashionable. We'd have heard if people were being savaged by vulpine man-eaters. In the meantime, the bear that savaged Mitch also makes a return and is taken into captivity, bringing back another ghost from Einar's past. The family's cat, she said, had savaged the bird, and one wing had been torn. The dog savaged the plaintiff when she entered the yard at night with her boyfriend who worked there. Synonyms maul, attack, tear to pieces, lacerate, claw, bite, mutilate, mangle worry 1.1 Subject to a vicious verbal attack; criticize brutally. 激烈的言词攻击；猛烈批评 he savaged the government for wasting billions in their failed bid to prop up the pound 他猛烈抨击政府浪费数十亿支撑英镑的失败努力。 Example sentencesExamples Perhaps no other great European choreographer, save Roland Petit, has been as neglected and critically savaged in the United States. Critics are savaging a government-funded course in Birmingham where grown-ups are being taught how to text and download ringtones. Most critics savaged his comedy when it was released last fall, but really, what were they expecting? Critics across the country savaged the film upon its initial release, dismissing it as directionless and dreary. As someone who has written more than his share of omnibus reviews/poetry chronicles, especially for this magazine, I know the temptation reviewers are subject to by way of savaging thin volumes of verse. Critics are going to savage this film out of respect to Charade and that's not really fair. It hardly seems to matter that the critics have universally savaged this show. The book, influenced greatly by him, had largely been savaged by Australian critics and I wanted to see what he himself would make of it. As Toronto theatre critics dispense increasingly disparate opinions, some shows are savaged in one rag and lionized in another. No one savaged the law's delays and inequities more energetically than Dickens, yet no one worried more about the results of revolution and lawlessness. Alexander fully expects to be savaged by reviewers again. Critics have, predictably, savaged the story, but everyone agrees the show is spectacular. Pundits lost no time in savaging the weakness of the script, the poverty of the acting and shambolic directing. Marxist critics savaged La Strada as an abandonment of neorealist principles, but as a director, Fellini was never really a neorealist to begin with. As predicted by many US pundits prior to its release, the film has been relentlessly savaged by the critics, and looks like a surefire contender for one of the worst movies of the year. Rarely in the history of magazines has a former editor so savaged his successor. The $10.5 million show, a haphazard pastiche of various famous Dr. Seuss stories, had been savaged by critics when it debuted in late November. I have had occasion over the years to savage this or that actor or screenwriter or director in print as part of my work as a film critic. And the celebrity in question is violently torn down from their pedestal, savaged for as long as it pleases people, and finally cast aside, no longer of any use to anyone, Popular British and Australian historians have savaged the commanders at the Dardanelles as cold-blooded murderers. Synonyms criticize severely, attack, lambaste, condemn, flay, shoot down, pillory, revile informal jump on, tear to pieces, take to pieces, take/pull apart, lay into, pitch into, hammer, slam, bash, do a hatchet job on, crucify, give something a battering, roast, skewer, throw brickbats at, knock British informal slate, rubbish, slag off, monster North American informal bad-mouth, pummel Australian/New Zealand informal trash, bag, give someone bondi archaic excoriate, slash Derivatives savagedom noun savageness noun ˈsavɪdʒnəsˈsævɪdʒnəs Presentation is bland and the lack of graphic detail just doesn't do justice to the obvious savageness of the creatures. Example sentencesExamples No sooner had he arrived than the isolation tore away his civilized exterior and made his inner savageness emerge. They are very good natured animals when domesticated, but I believe it to be impossible to cure that savageness, which all I have seen seem to possess. The empress's voice filled with a savageness Nell wasn't accustomed to hearing. I would argue that the violence in the Middle East is pretty mild mannered compared to the savageness occurring in Gujarat, a province in Northwestern India. Origin Middle English: from Old French sauvage 'wild', from Latin silvaticus 'of the woods', from silva 'a wood'. According to the origin of the name, savages live in woods. Savage derives from Latin silva ‘a wood’, the source also of the literary word sylvan (mid 16th century), and perhaps of sylph (mid 17th century), an imaginary spirit of the air. The overtones of savage are usually negative, suggesting violence and cruelty, but in the later 18th century the French writer and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78) conceived the idea of the noble savage, an idealized being without the corrupting influence of civilization, showing the natural goodness of humankind. Rhymes ravage Definition of savage in US English: savage adjectiveˈsavijˈsævɪdʒ 1(of an animal or force of nature) fierce, violent, and uncontrolled. （动物，自然力）凶猛的；猛烈的 tales of a savage beast a week of savage storms Example sentencesExamples He shuddered at the thought of those savage beasts. He looked very much like a savage creature, with his wild, shaggy black hair and infuriated and crazed grin. The horrible noises of the savage beasts filled them with fear. They say that music soothes the savage beast, but it can also make the sick feel better. Writers from La Bruyère to Zola may have likened peasants to savage beasts, but in fact, even within the social structure of the old regime, it was possible for rural productivity to rise significantly. The alleged victim also claims he was dragged backstage where the savage attack continued. There was a savage dog that barked at me, but at least I had a rest from the hill. One could never estimate what damage such a natural savage force might bring. But life among the dogs was savage; no law existed but that of fang and force. The two combatants charged at each other with weapons drawn and fought like savage beasts. These fierce and savage warriors actually consisted of Jutes, Friesians, Angles and Saxons. A savage attack left me with post-traumatic stress disorder. I saw the transformation take place, the placid exterior to the violent, savage beast. Young children would be fed to the savage dogs of Persavoran fame. Tonight, she cheated death by inches when a savage mountain lion attacked. He explained some things about the human mind, and how mankind began originally as savage hunters, fighting for their food and anything that got in their way. The savage attack has been classified as a hate crime by the Police Department. One would think that they were getting ready to unlock the cage of some savage beast. We had terrible visions of savage marauders destroying sacred idols, throwing them around with vicious glee. How do you understand the savage cruelty shown by the captors to their prisoners? Synonyms ferocious, fierce 1.1 Cruel and vicious; aggressively hostile. 凶残的；恶毒的 they launched a savage attack on the budget 他们对预算案发起猛烈攻击。 Example sentencesExamples This was a cynical and savage attack on the manufactured pop band culture of the 1990s. The reality is that he lost the confidence of the company, was attacked by leading artists and attracted a savage motion in the House of Commons which together made his position untenable. Even his old financial wizardry was in doubt: two loans floated in August failed miserably after savage criticism in the Assembly. Having clarified that, we cannot remain silent during what appears to be a ruthless and savage attack by the media on Charlie's character. The publication of the book had brought, besides savage criticism and attack, a compensatory leavening of pleasant new literary acquaintances in its wake. It is a savage indictment of American political consciousness from one of the most underrated of British film-makers. The Servant is a savage indictment of the English class system, and its waning hold over all aspects of the working and cultural life of Britain. His natural gift for writing led him to enjoy hurling savage personal abuse at his Tory opponents, but he was not pleased when his attacks were returned with interest. It is a savage attack on the archetypical French liberal bourgeois. We tried to have a debate on serious historical presidents, and you make it into a savage attack on the current president. After five years he escaped to America, from where he continued his savage denunciations of British policy in Ireland and around the world. His influence on both reports was very great and he was appointed secretary to the Poor Law Commission in 1834, a post which brought him savage criticism. Both couples suffer in unhappy marriages, and they deal with their situations through denial, deceit, and savage personal attacks. The background of Silvia Prieto is the savage capitalism of the market economy while in La ciénaga it is the decrepit world of traditional rural economies. The actor has launched a savage attack on Hollywood - saying the film industry is full of racists. Synonyms vicious, brutal, cruel, sadistic, ferocious, fierce, violent, bloody, murderous, homicidal, bloodthirsty, bestial, brutish, barbaric, barbarous, merciless, ruthless, pitiless, heartless, inhuman, harsh, callous, cold-blooded fierce, blistering, scathing, searing, stinging, devastating, mordant, trenchant, caustic, cutting, biting, withering, virulent, vitriolic 1.2 (chiefly in historical or literary contexts) primitive; uncivilized. 〈主史/文〉原始的，未开化的 Example sentencesExamples It set all England talking about contemporary painting, and sent the more alert not only to Paris but to museums and collections where they could have a look at primitive, oriental and savage art. Some people argue that capital punishment is a savage act and must be abolished in every state. Then he tells her of his wild tales of the savage barbarian Conan, and she sees the fire in his eyes. Synonyms primitive, uncivilized, unenlightened, non-literate, in a state of nature, heathen 1.3 (of a place) wild-looking and inhospitable; uncultivated. （地方）荒凉的；未开发的 Example sentencesExamples Bridget bought me a very complicated-looking pair of hiking boots, for all the savage terrain I am likely to encounter. I don't want to stay forever lost in this savage wilderness. I lived in northern, wild, savage England, just on the cusp of being Scotland. Namibia's landscape has a savage grandeur unlike that of any other African country. Hot and dry in summer, bitterly cold and exposed in winter, the Cevennes may be a harsh and unforgiving land but it possesses a raw, savage and inspiring beauty. The scene was one of powerful and savage beauty. They turned useless prairies into golden wheat fields, their wagons into powerful locomotives, and a savage wilderness into a network of commerce and trade. Playwright Edward Bond supplied sinewy dialogue, but nothing could compete with Roeg's startling images of fierce orange suns, lizards and insects, and savage terrain. Synonyms rugged, rough, wild, inhospitable, uninhabitable 1.4 (of something bad or negative) very great; severe. （坏事）极大的；严重的 this would deal a savage blow to the government's fight 这将会给政府的斗争以极大打击。 Example sentencesExamples His first period in office as Prime Minister is best known for his savage repression of labour unrest, which earned him the hostility of the Socialist Party and left him little time for social reform. Officials said negotiators had been close to agreement when the IMF made new demands for savage budget cuts. Other service industries are reacting to excess capacity and weak demand with savage price wars, further depressing prices. Women are often subjected to a savage and unexpected attack of the maternal instinct in their late thirties and sometimes those who have chosen not to have children come to regret it. But life had dealt them, and Radio Kilkenny, a savage blow, a knockout punch. The company has announced a savage price cut of its videogame system. The company's near demise paralleled the savage downturn in market demand, aggravated by an unsupportable overhead structure. Synonyms severe, crushing, devastating, crippling, terrible, awful, dreadful, dire, catastrophic, calamitous, ruinous nounˈsavijˈsævɪdʒ 1(chiefly in historical or literary contexts) a member of a people regarded as primitive and uncivilized. 〈主史/文〉原始的，未开化的 Example sentencesExamples In the mythology of ancient China, Han, the Chinese man, is distinguished from savages and barbarians by two features of his eating habits: he eats cereals and uses fire to process his food. Colonial forces brought the Bible to the heathen and civilization to the savage. Shakespeare is not a partisan of the noble savage who lives by instinct alone: rather, it is the savage in man that he fears and detests. He'd been told that they are thieves, savages, and barbarians. It was generally accepted that different rules applied when fighting savages than in warfare between European powers. The film's black characters (many of them white actors in blackface) are either servile or savages. Not surprisingly, it's a delicate issue for Native Americans, considering the once-prevalent stereotypes of Indians as marauding savages. A savage, if could understand it, would worship it as a god. Filson depicted the Kentucky frontier as a howling wilderness inhabited by wild beasts and uncivilized savages. The farmers in their turn described the Bedouin as savages and pagans. The people there are savages, but they don't attack often. It is commonly said that it shows how thin is the veneer of civilisation and how readily we humans can return to the state of primitive savages or animals and once again become blindly destructive. Those who feel whiteness is not worth analysing should investigate how English stereotypes of the Irish as savages became the model for racist profiling of Africans and Asians during the Empire. The incident scandalised Europeans at the time - a white woman at the mercy of brown savages - and a punitive expedition slaughtered scores of Maori in rescuing her. To be thus condescended to by heathen savages was intolerable. His belief that slaves were better off in American chains than in African freedom reflected anthropological ignorance expressed in the blind assumption that all Africans were savages. Under Jack's rule, the boys become uncivilized savages. Though destined for success, the novel at first met with criticism: Kostylev was accused of simplifying Ivan's character and portraying Russians as savages. The Mongols were pagan, brutal savages who were not to be trusted, he declared. Oh yes, they were hopeless philistines, little better than savages actually. Synonyms barbarian, wild man, wild woman, primitive, heathen 1.1 A brutal or vicious person. 凶狠恶毒的人；野蛮的人 the mother of one of the victims has described his assailants as savages 一个受害者的母亲把攻击者形容成野蛮人。 Example sentencesExamples The problem is at heart we're basically just savages, animals, and always will be, ready to use violence to solve all our problems, no matter what the consequences might be. They are heartless savages and even less than animals. Close up, they didn't look at all like the vicious savages she had encountered when she first came here. Synonyms brute, beast, monster, barbarian, ogre, demon, sadist, animal verbˈsavijˈsævɪdʒ [with object] 1(especially of a dog or wild animal) attack ferociously and maul. （尤指狗、野生动物）凶猛攻击，伤害 ewes savaged by marauding dogs Example sentencesExamples Nature's brutal and unforgiving approach is most evident when the orca whale savages a newly born grey whale and its mother, tearing away the whole baby's outer jaw in one swift motion. Helen treats the fact that the bear has savaged her hands and reduced them to bleeding stumps as a minor inconvenience. While still intact for the most part, the body has been chewed and savaged brutally. The lions chased him, and savaged his leg before he fell into a thorn bush too dense for them to reach him. There could be no liability for a dog known to be vicious until after it had managed to savage someone. Wilson tried to toss his coat over the dog to subdue it, but the dog savaged his hand and wrist until J.M. shot it. The dog savaged the plaintiff when she entered the yard at night with her boyfriend who worked there. We'd have heard if people were being savaged by vulpine man-eaters. In the meantime, the bear that savaged Mitch also makes a return and is taken into captivity, bringing back another ghost from Einar's past. The family's cat, she said, had savaged the bird, and one wing had been torn. If it's our ewe your dog is savaging that setout man may be saving you $125 and my wife's formidable wrath. People are still savaged by dogs, but the topic is no longer fashionable. Jebb - though not McLaren - also points to another grievance, in Aboriginal camp dogs, sometimes numbering thirty or more, savaging the stock. Synonyms maul, attack, tear to pieces, lacerate, claw, bite, mutilate, mangle 1.1 Subject to a vicious verbal attack; criticize brutally. 激烈的言词攻击；猛烈批评 Fowler savaged her in his next review Example sentencesExamples As someone who has written more than his share of omnibus reviews/poetry chronicles, especially for this magazine, I know the temptation reviewers are subject to by way of savaging thin volumes of verse. Rarely in the history of magazines has a former editor so savaged his successor. Marxist critics savaged La Strada as an abandonment of neorealist principles, but as a director, Fellini was never really a neorealist to begin with. It hardly seems to matter that the critics have universally savaged this show. Critics across the country savaged the film upon its initial release, dismissing it as directionless and dreary. Pundits lost no time in savaging the weakness of the script, the poverty of the acting and shambolic directing. Alexander fully expects to be savaged by reviewers again. As Toronto theatre critics dispense increasingly disparate opinions, some shows are savaged in one rag and lionized in another. Critics are going to savage this film out of respect to Charade and that's not really fair. I have had occasion over the years to savage this or that actor or screenwriter or director in print as part of my work as a film critic. Popular British and Australian historians have savaged the commanders at the Dardanelles as cold-blooded murderers. The $10.5 million show, a haphazard pastiche of various famous Dr. Seuss stories, had been savaged by critics when it debuted in late November. And the celebrity in question is violently torn down from their pedestal, savaged for as long as it pleases people, and finally cast aside, no longer of any use to anyone, Critics have, predictably, savaged the story, but everyone agrees the show is spectacular. Most critics savaged his comedy when it was released last fall, but really, what were they expecting? No one savaged the law's delays and inequities more energetically than Dickens, yet no one worried more about the results of revolution and lawlessness. Critics are savaging a government-funded course in Birmingham where grown-ups are being taught how to text and download ringtones. As predicted by many US pundits prior to its release, the film has been relentlessly savaged by the critics, and looks like a surefire contender for one of the worst movies of the year. The book, influenced greatly by him, had largely been savaged by Australian critics and I wanted to see what he himself would make of it. Perhaps no other great European choreographer, save Roland Petit, has been as neglected and critically savaged in the United States. Synonyms criticize severely, attack, lambaste, condemn, flay, shoot down, pillory, revile Origin Middle English: from Old French sauvage ‘wild’, from Latin silvaticus ‘of the woods’, from silva ‘a wood’.
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