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
  • Before taking on the captaincy, Cummins was used primarily as a strike bowler — a fast, hostile spearhead who attacked in bursts.
    Sukhman Singh, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • This Abel Ferrara cult classic follows a mute seamstress who goes on a revenge rampage after being attacked twice in one day on the streets of New York.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The View cohosts slammed the ongoing government shutdown.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Posting on social media, people slammed the Democrat for attending a family friend's wedding abroad on October 9, just two days before a state of emergency was declared on October 11 due to the floods.
    Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Rachel Dratch scolded Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sanz for laughing while rehearsing the original Debbie Downer sketch on Saturday Night Live.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
  • There, she is repeatedly scolded, first by a testy parking attendant (Mark Stolzenberg), and then by a doctor (Bronstein), who warns Linda of consequences if her daughter doesn’t soon reach her target weight of fifty pounds.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025

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“Savaged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/savaged. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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