savaged

past tense of savage

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of savaged Reviewers of the play savaged both the director and the writer but sang Burnett’s praises. Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025 Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which savaged New Orleans and much of the Gulf region, led to a push to better understand how and why these storms occur, and what agencies could do to better prepare. Alana Wise, NPR, 28 Sep. 2025 Not bad for a film that critics savaged. David Bloom, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025 Kraven the Hunter—a Marvel standalone movie starring Aaron Taylor Johnson and Russell Crowe—is being savaged by critics. Tim Lammers, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024 This year, Spotify Wrapped has been savaged by its own users for its uninspired presentation and a lack of personalization. Brady Brickner-Wood, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2024 The movie was savaged by critics and bankrupted United Artists. John Johnson Jr., Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2024 The three critics who reviewed it, savaged it, the devils. James Verniere, Boston Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for savaged
Verb
  • The Eagles attacked Skinner again, and the home crowd begged for a flag after the safety aggressively defended tight end Dallas Goedert, but no penalty was called.
    Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • In the southern border city of Sderot, which was attacked on October 7, and is frequently the target of rocket fire, a group of Israelis gathered at an observation deck overlooking Gaza to revel in its ruin.
    Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • And in a different year, with a different quarterback, the outcome was the same early in Monday night’s first quarter as Higgins pivoted to his back-shoulder and slammed to the turf with a 19-yard catch.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Tatiana slammed the horn and floored the gas pedal, roaring into her backyard.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Chun also scolded attorneys for Amazon in July for withholding thousands of documents from the FTC and abusing a legal privilege to shield them from scrutiny.
    Annie Palmer, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The heartwarming video, shared on Saturday by @inboxunknown15, shows the pup sitting head down, facing the wall, looking sad and ashamed after being scolded by his owner’s girlfriend.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025

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“Savaged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/savaged. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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