0 past simple and past participle of savage
1 If an animal savages someone, it attacks them violently and causes serious injuries:
It could take place only if the school meals service were completely savaged and, in some areas, obliterated.
A rottweiler that was chained up broke loose, savaged him quite severely, knocked him over and broke his arm.
Is he aware that a farmer in my constituency recently had a heartbreaking experience when 15 ewes were brutally savaged by dogs?
We want to ensure that we deal with the problem of dogs that have savaged and attacked people.
The industry has been savaged without any thought for the social consequences.
The facts are that each year 10,000 farm animals are savaged, two-thirds of which die.
Without that works my constituency would be savaged right across the centre.
There must be some way of enabling the police to take such dogs into control without putting themselves at risk of being savaged.
