I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
savage/stinging/vicious/biting satire
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a biting satire of the television industry
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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savage tax increases
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a savage warrior
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At night, packs of savage dogs roamed the streets.
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Daniels was found dead in his apartment, the victim of a savage beating.
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Fussell described the war as 'appallingly cruel and savage .'
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Police are hunting the savage killer of five men in South London.
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There was savage fighting in and around the eastern border towns.
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They caught the monkey, but it was so savage that no one could get near enough to feed it.
II. noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
noble savage
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The movie reinforces the stereotype of Indians as heathens and savages.
III. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Stevens was savaged in the sports press after his defeat.
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Troops savaged the weakened enemy army.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But after critics savaged his second symphony, Elgar became deeply depressed and never wrote another major work.
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He would insist to his dying day that an arctic wolf had savaged him.
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His jibe was greeted with howls of laughter as Mr Smith savaged Mr Major during the emergency debate on the economy.
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However, Brightman's performance was savaged by critics.
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Not unnaturally, Ministers have savaged the workings of a property tax ever since rates were abolished.
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The office door shuddered behind her, and a baying, as of hounds savaging each other, filled the suddenly silent wards.
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There were some who said he was a man whose children had been savaged by a local hound.
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Time and again he is savaged for speaking on subjects about which his critics claim he knows nothing.