Brazilian Portuguese English Dictionary

Português brasileiro - English

selvagem in English:

1. wild wild


Although rainforests make up only two percent of the earth's surface, over half the world's wild plant, animal and insect species live there.
wild animals
Trombones: it may be fun to go wild, but try not to blat the notes.
When spring comes, people go out to pick wild plants.
Among wild ducks, it seems there are homosexual necrophiliacs.
The panda is indigenous to Sichuan Province and does not live in the wild in any other places.
The passage illustrates Robinson Crusoe's landing on a wild desert island after his shipwreck.
If you make too many, we won't be able to sell them all, so don't go wild.
Definition if things are wild, or if you have a wild time, you do a lot of enjoyable and exciting things in a way that is uncontrolled
Man is a more dangerous foe to man than the elements of nature or animals in the wild.
I am not a rhinoceros, I am not a tiger, but I am led into this barren wild...
One morning at breakfast we children were informed to our utter dismay that we could no longer be permitted to run absolutely wild.
In many parts of the world it is illegal to shoot wild game such as deer, moose or pheasant.
This species of deer is so elusive that only two have ever been photographed in the wild.
Should you go to Scotland, would you please bring me back a wild haggis? Thank you.

English word "selvagem"(wild) occurs in sets:

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2. savage


the development of the human race from primitive savages
Don't be that savage!
packs of savage dogs roamed the streets
Police officers were savaged by a dog.
Every savage can dance.
Greece, conquered, took captive her savage conqueror.
His head had been shattered by a savage blow from some heavy weapon.
The savage robbed me of my precious jewels and ran away.
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
... think of: Larry Kramer's savage cry of rage about...
The attack last July on the Iraqi PMOI camp at Ashraf in Iraq can only be described as savage and barbaric.
a savage attack / savage cuts in public services / She wrote a savage review of the book.
She had been badly hurt in what police described as ‘a savage attack’.
to take a savage pleasure in having rows
The savage life is so simple, and our societies are such complex machinery!

English word "selvagem"(savage) occurs in sets:

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