Savagery

Definition

savage /'sævÇdʒ/ adj ၁။ (က) ႐ိုင္းစိုင္းၾကမ္းၾကဳတ္ေသာ။ a savage lion/wolf ❍ a savage attack by a big dog (ခ) ရက္စက္ၾကမ္းၾကဳတ္ေသာ။ savage criticism/fighting ❍ The article was a savage attack on the government's record. ❍ He has a savage temper. ၂။ ရက္စက္ေသာ။ savage cuts in public spending ❍ The decision was a savage blow for the local residents. ၃။ ( dated offensive ) ေခတ္ေနာက္က်ေသာ။ မယဥ္ေက်းေသာ။ savage tribes. n ( dated offensive ) လူ႐ိုင္း။ an island inhabited by savages ❍ ( derog ) He described the terrorist attack as the work of savages. v ၁။ ရက္ရက္စက္စက္ ကိုက္ဖဲ့သည္။ အနာတရ ျဖစ္ေစသည္။ She was savaged by a large dog. ၂။ ပ်စ္ပ်စ္ႏွစ္ႏွစ္ ေဝဖန္သည္။ a novel savaged by the reviewers. ❏ savagely adv ရက္ရက္စက္စက္ (သို႔) ခက္ခက္ ထန္ထန္။ be savagely attacked/criticized ❍ ‘You would say that!’ retorted Lynn savagely. ❏ savagery /'sævÇdʒri/ n [U] ရက္စက္ၾကမ္းၾကဳတ္မႈ။ The police have been appalled by the savagery of the attacks.

Examples

1. A savage attack/beating/murder
2. A savage look flitted across his face.
3. She took a savage pleasure in pointing out their mistakes.
4. Savage cuts in public services
5. Losing his job had been a savage blow.
6. She wrote a savage review of the book.
7. A savage attack on the government’s policies
8. She was savagely attacked in her own home.