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单词 savage
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savage

adjective
/ˈsævɪdʒ/
/ˈsævɪdʒ/
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  1. aggressive and violent; causing great harm synonym brutal
    • savage dogs
    • She had been badly hurt in what police described as ‘a savage attack’.
    • savage public spending cuts
    Extra Examples
    • Police have over 20 new leads in the hunt for the savage killer of two young boys.
    • Resistance provoked savage reprisals from the authorities.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • look
    • seem
    adverb
    • particularly
    • very
    • increasingly
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  2. involving very strong criticism
    • The article was a savage attack on the government's record.
  3. [only before noun] (old-fashioned, taboo) an offensive way of referring to groups of people or customs that are considered to be simple and not highly developed synonym primitive
    • a savage tribe
  4. Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French sauvage ‘wild’, from Latin silvaticus ‘of the woods’, from silva ‘a wood’.

savage

noun
/ˈsævɪdʒ/
/ˈsævɪdʒ/
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  1. (old-fashioned, taboo) an offensive word for somebody who belongs to a people that is simple and not developed
    • the development of the human race from primitive savages
    see also noble savage
  2. a cruel and violent person
    • He described the attack as the work of savages.
  3. Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French sauvage ‘wild’, from Latin silvaticus ‘of the woods’, from silva ‘a wood’.

savage

verb
/ˈsævɪdʒ/
/ˈsævɪdʒ/
[usually passive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they savage
/ˈsævɪdʒ/
/ˈsævɪdʒ/
he / she / it savages
/ˈsævɪdʒɪz/
/ˈsævɪdʒɪz/
past simple savaged
/ˈsævɪdʒd/
/ˈsævɪdʒd/
past participle savaged
/ˈsævɪdʒd/
/ˈsævɪdʒd/
-ing form savaging
/ˈsævɪdʒɪŋ/
/ˈsævɪdʒɪŋ/
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  1. (of an animal) to attack somebody violently, causing serious injury
    • be savaged (by something) She was savaged to death by a bear.
  2. (formal) to criticize somebody/something severely
    • be savaged (by somebody) Her latest novel has been savaged by the critics.
  3. Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French sauvage ‘wild’, from Latin silvaticus ‘of the woods’, from silva ‘a wood’.
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