savage
/ˈsævɪd͡ʒ/ verb C2- To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint. · No matter how anyone might savage me, I should stay strong.
- To criticise vehemently. · His latest film was savaged by most reviewers.
- To attack with the teeth.
He/she/it savages · Past savaged · Past participle savaged · -ing form savaging
Verb forms
- Base form
- savage
- He/she/it
- savages
- Past
- savaged
- Past participle
- savaged
- -ing form
- savaging
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won’t she be savage if I’ve kept her waiting!” Alice felt so desperate that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when the Rabbit came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, “If you please, sir—” The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go.
“How dreadfully savage!” exclaimed Alice.
Alice was very glad to find her in such a pleasant temper, and thought to herself that perhaps it was only the pepper that had made her so savage when they met in the kitchen.
Alice did not quite like the look of the creature, but on the whole she thought it would be quite as safe to stay with it as to go after that savage Queen: so she waited.
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