savage
adjective
fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed.
have savaged
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present perfectof savage.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Both have savaged him in interviews and books as well as on social media.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2024
Novelist and essayist Zoë Heller sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss Trump’s peculiar Americanness, lame defenses of Hillary Clinton, working on Fleet Street, and becoming friends with writers whose books you have savaged.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2017
And while admirers have fawned over his longevity—President Bill Clinton warmly said presidents come and go but Dingell goes on forever—critics have savaged his style.
From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 24, 2014
But while his criminal trials and his self-imposed afflictions have savaged his appearance, they appear not to have diminished his sense of purpose.
From Time ● Feb. 10, 2012
People came running to the cries of the terrified thief, whom Lisette was unwilling to abandon until my servant and I persuaded her, for in her rage she would have savaged anyone else.
From The Memoirs of General Baron De Marbot by Oliver C. Colt
