Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In the manner of a savage; cruelly; inhumanly.
- With extreme impetuosity or fierceness: as, to attack one savagely.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a savage manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
wild ,uncontrolled , orsavage manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb wildly; like an animal
- adverb in a vicious manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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A corner of the bluff rose savagely from the river -- a monstrous mass of naked rock, scarred and battered of the centuries; hating the river that gnawed it ever; hating the rain that graved its grim face with unsightly seams; hating the sun that refused to mate with it, whereof green life might come forth and hide its hideousness.
CHAPTER 25 2010
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Always he cursed Dennin savagely and handled him roughly.
THE UNEXPECTED 2010
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Having stalked indignantly onward for a few paces, the doctor discovered that his wife had not followed him, and turning he called savagely:
The Redemption of David Corson Charles Frederic Goss
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"Keep off the premises!" he called savagely into the hall.
The Turmoil 1915
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Always he cursed Dennin savagely and handled him roughly.
The Unexpected 1907
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Always he cursed Dennin savagely and handled him roughly.
THE UNEXPECTED 1906
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She calls savagely for revenge for the death of her kindred, especially her son Edward, and indeed is an active agent of that revenge: when, in 3 Henry VI, she and her allies capture Richard Duke of York, scion of the Yorkist claim to the crown, Margaret mocks him with a paper crown, shows him a handkerchief that she has dipped in the blood of York's slaughtered young son Rutland, and joins with Clifford in stabbing Richard to death.
Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002
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For example, the woman above is the "savagely" angry, Sara-like hotty thrilled to annoy.
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For example, the woman above is the "savagely" angry, Sara-like hotty thrilled to annoy.
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In case Gabriel guessed what she had been remembering and subjected her to the kind of savagely sexual possession she had once found so exciting?
Master of Pleasure Jordan, Penny 2006
yarb commented on the word savagely
When his wife|visits him||(every day,|every day)
he takes hold|of her sleeve,||clutches her|savagely
screaming 'Please,|get me well!||Dear sweet God,|make me well!'
- Peter Reading, C, 1984
August 2, 2008