单词 | savaging |
释义 | savagingn. 1. The action or an act of attacking a person, animal, etc., violently or ferociously; savage behaviour or action. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun] > damaging or injuring spillinga1122 impairment1340 marring1357 damaginga1400 defacingc1400 spoiling1479 violation?c1500 facingc1540 deface1556 defacement1561 infection1563 spoil1575 endamageance1594 damagement1603 mismaking1615 empoisonmenta1626 vitiation1635 vitiating1669 spoilage1815 savaging1858 spoliation1867 mucking about1969 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > violent treatment or force strong handOE strengthOE strenghc1300 violencec1300 mightc1325 stuntisea1327 forcea1340 enforcing138. forcinga1382 forcenessc1400 violation?c1500 efforce1549 enforcement1577 Stafford law1589 vexation1605 club-law1612 aspertee1660 physical force1716 strong arm1836 savaging1858 muscle1879 strong-arming1906 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > violent treatment or force > act or instance of outragec1300 violencea1393 forcea1481 stratagem1581 violency1632 savaging1858 1858 Guardian 7 Apr. 276/3 It should further be remembered that they are not even accused of any savaging or outrages. 1892 Baily's Mag. July 66/2 It is impossible to say St. Angelo would not have won the Derby had it been run on a course where there would have been no savagings or interferences. 1917 P. Gibbs Battles of Somme xiv. 142 Men in exposed positions have to suffer the savaging of the enemy's artillery. 1985 M. M. Hunt Profiles Social Res. i. 9 In some lands the savaging or even murder of an unfaithful wife is seen as an act of honour. 2005 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 6 Feb. a21 Another man survived a savaging by a crocodile..and is recovering in a hospital. 2. A verbal attack; spec. an instance of harsh or cruel criticism. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [noun] > severe > instance of cockshy1822 smasher1828 slasher1849 scarifier1855 slating1870 slate1887 savaging1905 excoriation1924 caning1933 pasting1974 handbagging1987 1905 J. B. Firth Highways & Byways in Derbyshire xiii. 208 Elliott..never quite recovered from the ‘savaging’ which Jeffrey administered to his early poems. 1969 Sunday Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 20 Apr. 19/8 The film got quite a savaging from the critics. 1985 Guardian 6 Mar. 10/1 The unlikely distinction of a public savaging from the Commons Transport Committee. 2010 Times (Nexis) 8 Feb. 53 His first Broadway venture in the mid-1960s..survived only three weeks after a critical savaging. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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