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SAVAGE

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savage I. adjectiv

1. barbar, sălbatic, necivilizat, primitiv.

2. (despre un animal) feroce; (despre o lovitură) brutal; (despre obraz) crunt, fioros, sălbatic.

3. (despre persoane) furios, cuprins de mânie, turbat;

to grow savage a se înfuria;

to make a savage attack on smb. a ataca sălbatic pe cineva.

savage II. substantiv

sălbatic.

savage III. verb tranzitiv

(despre animale, mai ales despre cai) a ataca, a muşca (alte animale); (fam., despre persoane) a ataca (pe cineva) cu dinţii şi cu unghiile, a ataca cu sălbăticie.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

It was a savage land, the men were savage, and the fights were usually to the death.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

I would sooner have a savage wild animal loose about the place.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This fellow is a perfect savage, as strong as a cart-horse and as fierce as the devil.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Peggotty, you savage creature!

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I swear to you, by the earth which I inhabit, and by you that made me, that with the companion you bestow, I will quit the neighbourhood of man and dwell, as it may chance, in the most savage of places.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

There was a savage struggle.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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