Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Määritelmät
Adjektiivit
- wild; not cultivated
- barbaric; not civilized
- fierce and ferocious
- brutal, vicious or merciless
- (UK, slang) unpleasant or unfair
Substantiivit
- (pejorative) An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian.
- (figuratively) A defiant person.
Verbit
- To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.
- (figuratively) To criticise vehemently.
- (of an animal) To attack with the teeth.
- (obsolete, transitive) To make savage.
Esimerkit
- a savage wilderness
- savage berries of the wood
- savage manners
- I observed a place where there had been a fire made, and a circle dug in the earth, like a cockpit, where I supposed the savage wretches had sat down to their human feastings upon the bodies of their fellow-creatures.
- What nation, since the commencement of the Christian era, ever rose from savage to civilized without Christianity?
- savage beasts
- a savage spirit
- He gave the dog a savage kick.
- The woman was killed in a savage manner.
- - I'll see you in detention. - Ah, savage!
- 'Well, my lord, I don't know,' said Freeman with a sort of jolly sneer; 'we have been dining with the savages.' 'They are not savages, Freeman.' 'Well, my lord, they have not much more clothes, anyhow; and as for knives and forks, there is not such a thing known.'
- His latest film was savaged by most reviewers.
- British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.
- Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf.
- That woman across the street died from a savage murder.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | savaged | Imperfekti | savaged |
| Partisiipin preesens | savaging | Monikko | savages |
| Komparatiivi | more savage | Superlatiivi | most savage |
| Superlatiivi | savagest | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | savages |