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单词 savagery
释义
savagerysav‧ag‧e‧ry /ˈsævɪdʒəri/ noun (plural savageries) [countable, uncountable] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Karlin witnessed inhumane savagery during the war.
  • The book tells of the boys' rapid descent into savagery, and the use of torture and terror.
  • Thompson condemned the murder as 'an appalling attack of savagery'.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • At this time the brutality of the vicious Communist thugs was snowballing into cold-blooded savagery.
  • In the old world the race of Man had risen from savagery to being the dominant civilisation in two short millennia.
  • Nobody knew whether or not it worked but we derived a certain pleasure from the savagery of the gambit.
  • The tension between them was destroyed with such wanton savagery that Melanie fell limply back and struggled with tears.
  • To allow savagery to remain is to allow evil to remain.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorviolent behaviour
fighting, killing, and other violent behaviour: · In some parts of the city, teachers have to deal with violence in the classroom.· complaints about sex and violence on TVviolence against: · The statistics show that male violence against women is widespread.
angry feelings or behaviour that often results in fighting: · In a prison, drugs sometimes have to be used to control aggression. aggression in: · Some people think that aggression in children may be caused by the food they eat.aggression towards/toward: · Low-ranking male chimpanzees eat with the dominant females, who show no aggresssion towards them.
deliberately cruel and violent behaviour that shows no pity for the person who is injured or killed: · Civil rights activists were appalled by the brutality of the police.mindless brutality (=used to emphasize that there is no good reason for a violent action): · The killings were an act of mindless brutality.
extreme and uncontrolled violence in which people are attacked and killed: · Thompson condemned the murder as 'an appalling attack of savagery'.· The book tells of the boys' rapid descent into savagery, and the use of torture and terror.
extreme violence in fighting or in attacking someone: · Further attacks escalated rapidly in extent and ferocity.the ferocity of something: · The knife had snapped in two from the ferocity of the attack.· The ferocity of the piranha fish has made it famous.
violent action, used in order to make someone do something: · We want to end the demonstration without force.use force: · The police do not use force when arresting people unless it's absolutely necessary.by force (=using force): · Her husband tried to get the children back by force.
extremely cruel and violent behaviour:  Local people were shocked by the savagery of the attack.
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