SAVAGING Synonyms

• the act of subjecting to strong attack

• the act of overcoming or outdoing

• the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows

• forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority

• physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination

• plundering with excessive damage and destruction

• ruinously destructive and wasting

• a sound defeat

• the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows

• close fighting during the culmination of a military attack

• thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1946

• a threatened or attempted physical attack by someone who appears to be able to cause bodily harm if not stopped

• the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will

• attack someone physically or emotionally

• force (someone) to have sex against their will

• attack in speech or writing

• cause injuries or bodily harm to

• hurt the feelings of

• cause damage or affect negatively

• irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn

• having edges that are jagged from injury

• cut or tear irregularly

• deeply hurt the feelings of; distress

• injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation

• a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges

• split (wood) with a maul and wedges

• injure badly by beating

• damage or injure severely

• alter so as to make unrecognizable

• destroy or injure severely

• To hit or strike heavily and repeatedly.

• A beating.

• a member of an uncivilized people

• a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement

• without civilizing influences

• without civilizing influences

• unrestrained and crudely rich

• (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

• primitive in customs and culture

• a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

• a cruelly rapacious person

• a very long fly ball

• a sudden very loud noise

• a strong current of air

• an explosion (as of dynamite)

• a highly pleasurable or exciting experience

• intense adverse criticism

• make a strident sound

• hit with great force

• use explosives on

• apply a draft or strong wind to to

• create by using explosives

• make with or as if with an explosion

• fire a shot; release

• criticize harshly or violently

• shatter as if by explosion

• shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly

• (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

• punishingly harsh

• resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility

• disagreeably direct and precise

• a cruelly rapacious person

• a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

• resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility