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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wild
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a wild accusation (=with no evidence to support it)
▪ She’s made all sorts of wild accusations about him, hasn’t she?
a wild bird
▪ Our organization aims to protect wild birds.
a wild cat (=a type of cat that does not live with people)
▪ The African wild cat is bigger than ordinary domestic cats.
a wild creature
▪ Damage to the environment affects all wild creatures.
a wild dog
▪ Packs of wild dogs roamed the countryside.
a wild exaggeration (=an extreme exaggeration that is not at all realistic)
▪ He claims to be 120 years old, but that's is clearly a wild exaggeration.
a wild flower
▪ The meadows were covered with wild flowers.
a wild guess (=one made without much thought or information)
▪ I made a wild guess and I got the answer right first time.
a wild rumour (=one that is completely untrue)
▪ It has been a week of wild rumour and exaggeration.
beyond your wildest dreams (=better or more than you ever hoped for)
▪ Suddenly he was wealthy beyond his wildest dreams.
drive sb crazy/wild (=make someone feel very sexually excited)
▪ He drives women wild.
go wild/mad/white etc with sth
▪ The crowd was going wild with excitement.
grow wild (=grow without anyone looking after them)
▪ The plants grow wild by the river.
let your imagination run wild (also let your imagination run riot British English) (= allow yourself to imagine many strange or wonderful things)
▪ He uses painting as a way of letting his imagination run riot.
not/never in your wildest dreams (=used to say that you had never expected something to happen)
▪ Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would win the competition.
wild boar
wild card
wild country (=not used or farmed by people)
▪ I love the wild country of the Scottish Highlands.
wild excesses (=very extreme behaviour)
▪ The Press Complaints Commission criticized the wilder excesses of tabloid journalism.
wild goose chase
▪ It looks like they’ve sent us on a wild goose chase.
wild plants
▪ Many wild plants are in danger of dying out.
wild rice
wild rumours (=rumours that are not likely to be true)
▪ This led to wild rumours of American involvement in the attack.
wild/domestic/farm animals
▪ cattle, sheep, and other domestic animals
wildest imaginings
▪ In my wildest imaginings, I could not have foreseen what a wonderful life lay before me.
wild/idle speculation (=unlikely to be true)
▪ Such fears are wild speculation.
wild/mad eyes (=very angry, afraid etc)
▪ He stared at them with wild eyes.
with reckless/wild abandon
▪ They drank and smoked with reckless abandon.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
animal
▪ Amy Fisher, dubbed the Long Island Lolita, was described as a wild animal by the judge.
▪ He was never bothered by wild animals, either.
▪ Sometimes I killed a wild animal, and then I had meat to eat.
▪ Orstedt complains wild animals get caught in the fencing while trying to reach the water.
▪ Edinburgh ensures me that no wild animals are caught to replace dead animals.
▪ A week later the lion was trapped by a net some hunters had left as a wild animal trap.
▪ The sanctions could take the form of a ban on virtually all trade in wild animal products with the two countries.
▪ Also patron of veterinarians and wild animals.
beast
▪ A wild beast does not at once become tame, or a new breed arise in an instant.
▪ Later the slave was recaptured and sentenced to die in the arena facing a wild beast.
▪ Such rules serve to distinguish further basic social categories: friends from enemies, domestic animals from wild beasts, and so on.
▪ I am really a wild beast, you know.
▪ The Kurd entered the first of them cautiously, sniffing for wild beasts, then beckoned them in.
▪ Innocent llamas and other wild beast roam the screen, helpless, bleating and afraid.
▪ He has proved not a tamer of wild beasts, but a tamer of wild lives.
bird
▪ The profits made by the sale of goods are ploughed back into wild bird conservation.
▪ The meat of these wild birds is dark and rich compared to that of domestic ducks.
▪ They can even be frightened by wild birds flying overhead, which they mistakenly think are predators.
▪ The second group represented wild birds transplanted from not far away.
▪ We were screened from the wild birds as we hurried along behind high earth banks planted with willow.
▪ Culmination, the longed-for moment when a wild bird would cat from his hand or perch on his shoulder, never occurred.
▪ The future of our wild birds and environment is under threat.
▪ Beautiful wild birds unfold their silver wings.
boar
▪ The wild boar had been hiding behind a large and actually rather unconvincing bush for a hundred years or so.
▪ The origin of the ancestral wild boar is thought to be the Crimea.
▪ If swine, then big wild boar, hunting quietly in the woods for something, mooching about and turning things up.
▪ Succubi, devils, witches, magicians, vampires, werewolves, ghosts and wild boars.
▪ Deer, wild boar, so we can claim to be connoisseurs.
▪ It can also be used with domestic pork to make it taste more like wild boar.
▪ It got off to a hairy start with several heated discussions about what a wild boar is.
▪ He walks along a narrow path to a ridge where wild boar, hyenas and the golden mole rat occasionally roam.
card
▪ The wild card is the idea of contamination from deep space.
▪ Only a wild card like Miss Shelly Thomas of Riverdale was likely to have sympathy!
▪ The wild card is Baroness Mallalieu.
▪ The Salomon compensation game, like the job placement game for trainees, has a political wild card in it.
▪ The Wimbledon champion has accepted a wild card entry for the grass court event in Halle.
▪ But in another way, it injects a wild card into the government's careful script for a controlled political transition.
cat
▪ They start to refine their miaows in a way that wild cats never seem to do.
▪ A wild cat passes near, somebody spots a yak, there is talk of a new plague of wolves.
▪ Of the three types of general body fur on the wild cat, the down hairs are the most numerous.
▪ Just then two big wild cats came down to the shore from the mountains.
▪ Instead, she began to light like a wild cat.
▪ There is wildlife here in abundance; deer, wild cats, red squirrels, golden eagles, ospreys and reindeer.
▪ The people were afraid of these wild cats, and the women cried out.
▪ The second wild cat ran back up into the mountains.
creature
▪ All wild creatures behave in the same way when presented with a cache of food and plenty of competition for it.
▪ Where great, wild creatures ranged, the vermin prosper.
▪ Oh, wild creature, it's you I've dared to demand in the garden of paradise.
▪ They need help, my dear, as our wild creatures have needed help, and that is why I must go.
▪ And be quick, watchful, clever, like a wild creature that must elude the hunters.
▪ The results are frequently fatal to the wild creatures.
▪ Allen had crept under a bush and even asleep was as difficult to see as a wild creature.
▪ They would tear to pieces the wild creatures they met and devour the bloody shreds of flesh.
dream
▪ In his wildest dreams, it had never occurred to Fabio that he might help any of these children.
▪ And here you both are, sweeter than my wildest dreams.
▪ Never in my wildest dreams had I ever thought I would even go to Hollywood, let alone work with people like him.
▪ To the contrary, we succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.
▪ It is riches beyond my wildest dreams and well worth fighting the Second World War for.
▪ Our mission reaps rewards far beyond our wildest dreams!
▪ This Tank Girl-style posse is only seven months old, but already it has grown beyond the founders' wildest dreams.
▪ It is not a wild dream, which I think he fears sometimes.
flower
▪ They are the wild flowers of our experience that are cultivated to bloom all our lives.
▪ They voted for a restoration of a betrayed heritage of wild flowers and healthy trees.
▪ The latter have produced wild flowers and butterflies which are of great interest to visitors and school children.
▪ We're hoping, there's just a chance, she left her car to pick wild flowers.
▪ The waves of colour of the wild flowers mixed with the waves of sound.
▪ What Charles also wanted now he had a garden of his own was wild flowers.
▪ There was a scent of wild flowers and grass cooling after a hot day.
▪ In my garden it has made a swift transition from weed to wild flower to flower.
game
▪ As a competitor for wild game, the mink is not resented for fulfilling its natural role.
▪ The history of wine dates back thousands of years and wild game has been on our tables since mankind searched for food.
▪ She has hunted wild game, mainly roe deer and moose, and has had little impact on livestock.
▪ On Genesis, Sonic is back in Sonic 3D Blast, a wild game whose title says it all.
▪ The annual award is to promote and encourage imaginative projects and management of wild game conservation and its habitat.
▪ Populations of wild game ran for cover, and were subsequently replaced by domesticated livestock.
▪ The use of salt as a preservative for wild game is basic, particularly prior to the days of refrigeration.
▪ In order to protect the diminishing herds, laws were established to control the hunting and sale of wild game.
garlic
▪ Each wild garlic blossom is carried on a half-round stem holding an umbel of 30 flowers.
▪ The sight and smell is as dizzying as the mathematics, as wild garlic time spins through the woods here.
▪ The hedgerows had begun to burgeon with violets, primroses, wild garlic and early pink campion.
goose
▪ Save yourself a wild goose chase round the shops.
▪ With older wild goose, braising is the preferred method of cooking.
▪ There have been many wild geese chased, that is not how we like to go on.
▪ Has a wild goose grown desperate and confused by the disappearance of all grain and berries?
▪ Often there was a soul-stirring glimpse of wild geese arrowing northward across an ice-blue sky on their spring migratory flight.
▪ They deliberately sent me on a wild goose chase.
▪ I thought, Don't know about a wild goose chase, this is a lame duck chase.
▪ Instead of that, he had become involved in what was most likely a wild goose chase.
guess
▪ It had thrown her when Luke Calder had made that seemingly wild guess about her, but now she could understand it.
▪ Shall we take a wild guess?
▪ The glitter in his hooded eyes made it impossible for her to hazard even the wildest guess at what he was thinking.
▪ That was Renato, still entertaining the class with wild guesses.
▪ Still, it was discouraging that no one had ventured even a wild guess.
horse
▪ Roberts has found the prints of wolves, wild boar, goats, wild horse and sheep.
▪ Morthen kicked the wild horse and galloped up to the earth wall.
▪ He told me he had a wild horse for me to ride at the roundup.
▪ This Przewalski's stallion has the typical dun coat of a truly wild horse.
▪ The second type of horsemen are wild horse archers recruited from the nomadic tribes of the Kislev steppes.
▪ The defendant then allowed a wild horse on his land, which attacked the plaintiff.
man
▪ Tom was like a wild man, kicking bags and throwing clubs.
▪ But only a purely wild man went out on a limb of four or five minutes.
▪ The desire to capture had driven him like a wild man through the school yard, up the sidewalk, everywhere.
▪ The job was a cage where the wild man in me fretted and chafed.
▪ He's a bit of a wild man.
▪ What was it you said about coming specially to meet the wild man of the wilderness?
▪ Slowly, he moved nearer to me, but just then the first wild man began to get up from the ground.
▪ Yes, there's the old woman and the wild man hacking at a haunch of venison.
mushroom
▪ She adds eggs, cream, or a little crème fraiche, and wild mushrooms cooked with shallots.
▪ I conjured up visions of wild mushroom risotto, tiramisu, Cherry, Garcia ice cream, and currant scones.
▪ They had pasta to start, delicious home-made shells served with a piquant wild mushroom sauce.
▪ Garnish with tropical fruits and sauteed wild mushrooms, if desired.
▪ Garnish with reserved pancetta, chopped basil, and wild mushrooms, if used.,.
place
▪ It is one of the wilder places on earth and contains rainforest, and boa constrictors.
▪ In his final year, Babbitt got a lot more aggressive about preserving the nation's wild places.
▪ The silence of the wild places should be disturbed only by the sounds of nature.
▪ I saw wolves in a wild place.
▪ Cheering was the thought of other trips to other wild places still awaiting to be rediscovered!
▪ She knew the world was a wild place.
▪ The court of Aenarion was a wild place, full of desperate gaiety and feverish mirth.
▪ Despite its ease of access this remains a wild place, and one of many moods.
plant
▪ Many wild plants and animals are in danger of dying out.
▪ Farmers grow only a few crops, while gatherers pick from a vast range of wild plants.
▪ It has been set up to show the value of wild plants, particularly how they can be used in creative conservation.
▪ Worries about the collection and trading of wild plants were overemphasised, he said.
▪ Its importance will grow as the reserve takes shape and provides even more of the right habitats for wildlife and wild plants.
▪ Many wild plants of the wetlands were also harvested.
▪ Many of these wild plants we never saw in Ayrshire.
rice
▪ I can eat no more of the wild rice which tastes nutty and clings to the roof of my mouth.
▪ He serves the venison with a wild rice compote that contains sun-dried pears, a hard-to-find ingredient.
▪ Below: wild rice and grits are staple elements in Cajun cooking.
▪ We buy our wild rice in broken pieces, which cuts the expense in half.
▪ Oh, that's the wild rice!
▪ Broken pieces of wild rice are much less expensive.
▪ If you are making your own blend, use half wild rice and half brown.
▪ For dinner, Aunt Mary made pot roast, steamed asparagus, wild rice, and, for dessert, apple pie.
rose
▪ A wild rose has no employees.
▪ When the wild roses finished blooming, we collected the orange-red hips, carefully picked the skin off the compressed seeds.
▪ In this particular case I used wild roses, plus their buds and leaves.
▪ In a week the displaced honeysuckle vines, the wild roses, the grapevines, the grass, would be back.
▪ Instead, Frith sent them strange singers, beautiful and sick like oak-apples, like robins' pin-cushions on the wild rose.
▪ There were lots of wild roses and foxgloves growing in the lane and you could smell the hawthorn.
▪ Weeds are rampant everywhere, dandelions, nettles, dock leaves, rose-bay willow-herb, wild roses, brambles.
▪ They can be simple and like wild roses, suitable for woodland gardens; or formal for town gardens.
speculation
▪ And tougher regulations and market enforcement should slow wild speculation and heavy swings in trading.
type
▪ However, as described above, this plasmid was found to exhibit wild type R-M.
▪ To further substantiate these results, we pre-incubated the nuclear extract with a 500 molar excess of wild type or mutated oligonucleotides.
▪ We never observed any labelled protein when wild type oligonucleotides were used for competition.
▪ Some tubes should have wild-type males and pearl eye females while others should have wild type females and pearl eye males.
▪ In each series of probe preparations, a wild type control was prepared in an identical manner at the same time.
▪ This action of the mutant protein is by contrast with the recently established tumour suppressor activity of the wild type protein.
▪ Replacement by Ala has a deleterious effect invitro but essentially acts as the wild type invivo.
west
▪ In shoot out you are in a wild west street with various characters appearing from behind sheds and windows.
▪ Providing the military or the wild west sea don't thwart your plans, I doubt very much these climbs will disappoint.
▪ Suddenly lurching for a wild west alternative, the Tories now oblige Labour to talk honestly about tax.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
go hog wild
sow your wild oats
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "It turns out she went to college with my sister." "That's wild."
▪ wild horses
▪ Wild strawberries are much smaller than the kind you get in shops.
▪ wild winds
▪ a wild Hawaiian shirt
▪ a wild party
▪ a wild pitch
▪ a wild rose
▪ Banana trees were growing wild on the edge of the forest.
▪ In my opinion, wild animals should not be kept in zoos.
▪ Jed was really wild in high school.
▪ The island has an abundance of wildlife - animals, birds and fish.
▪ There were lots of wild flowers growing by the roadside.
▪ Where do you get these wild ideas?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He kept laughing, cackling, making wild, insane remarks.
▪ He was small and hard and wild and in some ways more like an animal than a boy.
▪ Its flame would sink, then spring up suddenly, casting wild shadows over the wall and the floor.
▪ She used to pick wild ones in the fields near her home when they came into season.
▪ That was Renato, still entertaining the class with wild guesses.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In one experiment gastropods whose shells were deliberately crushed by researchers and returned to the wild lived as long as uninjured controls.
▪ In them, and in William Burchell's mare, the wild undergoes a spiritual transformation beyond the reach of science.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wild

Wild \Wild\, adv. Wildly; as, to talk wild.
--Shak.

Wild

Wild \Wild\, n. An uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or desert; a wilderness; a waste; as, the wilds of America; the wilds of Africa.

then Libya first, of all her moisture drained, Became a barren waste, a wild of sand.
--Addison.

Wild

Wild \Wild\, a. [Compar. Wilder; superl. Wildest.] [OE. wilde, AS. wilde; akin to OFries. wilde, D. wild, OS. & OHG. wildi, G. wild, Sw. & Dan. vild, Icel. villr wild, bewildered, astray, Goth. wilpeis wild, and G. & OHG. wild game, deer; of uncertain origin.]

  1. Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily approached by, man; not tamed or domesticated; as, a wild boar; a wild ox; a wild cat.

    Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.
    --Shak.

  2. Growing or produced without culture; growing or prepared without the aid and care of man; native; not cultivated; brought forth by unassisted nature or by animals not domesticated; as, wild parsnip, wild camomile, wild strawberry, wild honey.

    The woods and desert caves, With wild thyme and gadding vine o'ergrown.
    --Milton.

  3. Desert; not inhabited or cultivated; as, wild land. ``To trace the forests wild.''
    --Shak.

  4. Savage; uncivilized; not refined by culture; ferocious; rude; as, wild natives of Africa or America.

  5. Not submitted to restraint, training, or regulation; turbulent; tempestuous; violent; ungoverned; licentious; inordinate; disorderly; irregular; fanciful; imaginary; visionary; crazy. ``Valor grown wild by pride.''
    --Prior. ``A wild, speculative project.''
    --Swift.

    What are these So withered and so wild in their attire ?
    --Shak.

    With mountains, as with weapons, armed; which makes Wild work in heaven.
    --Milton.

    The wild winds howl.
    --Addison.

    Search then the ruling passion, there, alone The wild are constant, and the cunning known.
    --Pope.

  6. Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered; as, a wild roadstead.

  7. Indicating strong emotion, intense excitement, or ?ewilderment; as, a wild look.

  8. (Naut.) Hard to steer; -- said of a vessel. Note: Many plants are named by prefixing wild to the names of other better known or cultivated plants to which they a bear a real or fancied resemblance; as, wild allspice, wild pink, etc. See the Phrases below. To run wild, to go unrestrained or untamed; to live or untamed; to live or grow without culture or training. To sow one's wild oats. See under Oat. Wild allspice. (Bot.), spicewood. Wild balsam apple (Bot.), an American climbing cucurbitaceous plant ( Echinocystis lobata). Wild basil (Bot.), a fragrant labiate herb ( Calamintha Clinopodium) common in Europe and America. Wild bean (Bot.), a name of several leguminous plants, mostly species of Phaseolus and Apios. Wild bee (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of undomesticated social bees, especially the domestic bee when it has escaped from domestication and built its nest in a hollow tree or among rocks. Wild bergamot. (Bot.) See under Bergamot. Wild boar (Zo["o]l.), the European wild hog ( Sus scrofa), from which the common domesticated swine is descended. Wild brier (Bot.), any uncultivated species of brier. See Brier. Wild bugloss (Bot.), an annual rough-leaved plant ( Lycopsis arvensis) with small blue flowers. Wild camomile (Bot.), one or more plants of the composite genus Matricaria, much resembling camomile. Wild cat. (Zo["o]l.)

    1. A European carnivore ( Felis catus) somewhat resembling the domestic cat, but larger stronger, and having a short tail. It is destructive to the smaller domestic animals, such as lambs, kids, poultry, and the like.

    2. The common American lynx, or bay lynx.

    3. (Naut.) A wheel which can be adjusted so as to revolve either with, or on, the shaft of a capstan. --Luce. Wild celery. (Bot.) See Tape grass, under Tape. Wild cherry. (Bot.)

      1. Any uncultivated tree which bears cherries. The wild red cherry is Prunus Pennsylvanica. The wild black cherry is Prunus serotina, the wood of which is much used for cabinetwork, being of a light red color and a compact texture.

      2. The fruit of various species of Prunus. Wild cinnamon. See the Note under Canella. Wild comfrey (Bot.), an American plant ( Cynoglossum Virginicum) of the Borage family. It has large bristly leaves and small blue flowers. Wild cumin (Bot.), an annual umbelliferous plant ( Lag[oe]cia cuminoides) native in the countries about the Mediterranean. Wild drake (Zo["o]l.) the mallard. Wild elder (Bot.), an American plant ( Aralia hispida) of the Ginseng family. Wild fowl (Zo["o]l.) any wild bird, especially any of those considered as game birds. Wild goose (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of undomesticated geese, especially the Canada goose ( Branta Canadensis), the European bean goose, and the graylag. See Graylag, and Bean goose, under Bean. Wild goose chase, the pursuit of something unattainable, or of something as unlikely to be caught as the wild goose. --Shak. Wild honey, honey made by wild bees, and deposited in trees, rocks, the like. Wild hyacinth. (Bot.) See Hyacinth, 1 (b) . Wild Irishman (Bot.), a thorny bush ( Discaria Toumatou) of the Buckthorn family, found in New Zealand, where the natives use the spines in tattooing. Wild land.

        1. Land not cultivated, or in a state that renders it unfit for cultivation.

        2. Land which is not settled and cultivated. Wild licorice. (Bot.) See under Licorice. Wild mammee (Bot.), the oblong, yellowish, acid fruit of a tropical American tree ( Rheedia lateriflora); -- so called in the West Indies. Wild marjoram (Bot.), a labiate plant ( Origanum vulgare) much like the sweet marjoram, but less aromatic. Wild oat. (Bot.)

          1. A tall, oatlike kind of soft grass ( Arrhenatherum avenaceum).

          2. See Wild oats, under Oat. Wild pieplant (Bot.), a species of dock ( Rumex hymenosepalus) found from Texas to California. Its acid, juicy stems are used as a substitute for the garden rhubarb. Wild pigeon. (Zo["o]l.)

            1. The rock dove.

            2. The passenger pigeon. Wild pink (Bot.), an American plant ( Silene Pennsylvanica) with pale, pinkish flowers; a kind of catchfly. Wild plantain (Bot.), an arborescent endogenous herb ( Heliconia Bihai), much resembling the banana. Its leaves and leaf sheaths are much used in the West Indies as coverings for packages of merchandise. Wild plum. (Bot.)

              1. Any kind of plum growing without cultivation.

              2. The South African prune. See under Prune.

                Wild rice. (Bot.) See Indian rice, under Rice.

                Wild rosemary (Bot.), the evergreen shrub Andromeda polifolia. See Marsh rosemary, under Rosemary.

                Wild sage. (Bot.) See Sagebrush.

                Wild sarsaparilla (Bot.), a species of ginseng ( Aralia nudicaulis) bearing a single long-stalked leaf.

                Wild sensitive plant (Bot.), either one of two annual leguminous herbs ( Cassia Cham[ae]crista, and Cassia nictitans), in both of which the leaflets close quickly when the plant is disturbed.

                Wild service.(Bot.) See Sorb.

                Wild Spaniard (Bot.), any one of several umbelliferous plants of the genus Aciphylla, natives of New Zealand. The leaves bear numerous bayonetlike spines, and the plants form an impenetrable thicket.

                Wild turkey. (Zo["o]l.) See 2d Turkey.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wild

"uncultivated or desolate region," 1590s, in the wilds. From wild (adj.). Earlier it meant "wild animal" (c.1200).

wild

Old English wilde "in the natural state, uncultivated, untamed, undomesticated, uncontrolled," from Proto-Germanic *wilthja- (cognates: Old Saxon wildi, Old Norse villr, Old Frisian wilde, Dutch wild, Old High German wildi, German wild, Gothic wilþeis "wild," German Wild (n.) "game"), from PIE root *welt- "woodlands; wild" (see wold).\n\nUrsula ... hath bin at all the Salsbury rasis, dancing like wild with Mr Clarks. [letter, 1674]\nMeaning "sexually dissolute, loose" is attested from mid-13c. Meaning "distracted with excitement or emotion, crazy" is from 1590s. U.S. slang sense of "exciting, excellent" is recorded from 1955. As an adverb from 1540s. Baseball wild pitch is recorded from 1867. Wildest dreams attested from 1717. Wild West in a U.S. context recorded by 1826. Wild Turkey brand of whiskey (Austin Nichols Co.) in use from 1942.

wild

"to run wild, refuse to be tamed," Old English awildian (see wild (adj.)). Wilding (n.) in the teen gang sense first recorded 1989. Earlier it meant "plant that grows without cultivation" (1520s).

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Wiktionary
wild

  1. untamed; not domesticated. adv. inaccurately; not on target. n. 1 The undomesticated state of a wild animal 2 (context chiefly in the plural English) a wilderness v

  2. To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang.

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WordNet
wild

  1. adj. marked by extreme lack of restraint or control; "wild ideas"; "wild talk"; "wild originality"; "wild parties" [ant: tame]

  2. in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated; "wild geese"; "edible wild plants" [syn: untamed] [ant: tame]

  3. in a state of extreme emotion; "wild with anger"; "wild with grief"

  4. deviating widely from an intended course; "a wild bullet"; "a wild pitch"

  5. (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud; "a violent clash of colors"; "her dress was a violent red"; "a violent noise"; "wild colors"; "wild shouts" [syn: violent]

  6. not subjected to control or restraint; "a piano played with a wild exuberance"- Louis Bromfield

  7. talking or behaving irrationally; "a raving lunatic" [syn: raving, raving mad]

  8. produced without being planted or without human labor; "wild strawberries" [syn: spontaneous]

  9. located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places" [syn: desert, godforsaken, waste]

  10. without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes" [syn: barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized, uncivilised]

  11. (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea" [syn: angry, furious, raging, tempestuous]

wild

  1. n. a wild primitive state untouched by civilization; "he lived in the wild" [syn: natural state, state of nature]

  2. a wild and uninhabited area [syn: wilderness]

wild

  1. adv. in an uncontrolled and rampant manner; "weeds grew rampantly around here" [syn: rampantly]

  2. in a wild or undomesticated manner; "growing wild"; "roaming wild"

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Gazetteer
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Wikipedia
Wild

Wild, the wild or wilds may refer to:

Wild (Inkubus Sukkubus album)

Wild is the fifth full-length studio album by British Pagan rock band Inkubus Sukkubus.

"Death & The Virgin" is a hidden track that plays about 2 minutes after "Delilah" finishes. Also, "Atrocity" is the only Inkubus Sukkubus song besides "Resurrection Machine" and "Jerusalem" which features Tony McKormack on lead vocals instead of Candia Ridley.

Wild (band)

Wild was a five-piece classical female group. It was often compared to Bond because of the very similar makeup and style of both groups.

Although most of the band was English, Iva Cojic and Andjelka Ristic were born in Serbia.

WILD (AM)

WILD is a radio station licensed to Boston, Massachusetts. It broadcasts on 1090 kHz and airs programming from China Radio International under a lease agreement. Prior to the flip to Chinese programming, the station had a legacy of serving Boston's African-American community as a R&B outlet (and its subgenres) from 1967 to 2011. The transmitter for WILD is in Medford.

Wild (company)

Rudolf Wild & Co. is a UA company headquartered in Eppelheim, near Heidelberg, Germany.

The company produces natural ingredients for food products. WILD has around 2,500 employees in over 70 countries, 1,400 of whom are employed at the main plant in Eppelheim. The company is based on three core businesses: the production of ingredients for the food and beverage industry, the construction of processing equipment and machinery (WILD INDAG) and the production and sale of its own brand products and end products. One of the latter, Capri Sun, is sold in over 100 countries.

Wild (TV series)

Wild is a one-hour American documentary television series that premiered in 2006 on the National Geographic Channel.

Wild (river)

The Wild is a small stream in Germany and The Netherlands. If flows south of the German town of Elten and north of the Dutch town of Spijk. It used to be an old branch of the Rhine. North of Lobith it flows into the Oude Rijn.

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Wild (surname)

Wild is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Anke Wild (born 1967), German field hockey player

  • (1908-1946), British Army officer

  • Dölf Wild (born 1954), Swiss historian and archäologist
  • Earl Wild (1915-2010), American pianist
  • Edward Wild (born 1978), British neurologist, neuroscientist and scientific outreach advocate
  • Edward A. Wild (1825–1891), American homeopathic doctor and US Civil War General
  • Frank Wild (1873-1939), British Antarctic explorer
  • George Wild (1550-1616), English lawyer and MP
  • Gerald Wild (1907–1996), Australian MP and government minister
  • Hans-Peter Wild (born 1941), chairman of the WILD GmbH & Co.KG
  • Harry J. Wild (1901-1961) American cinematographer
  • Jack Wild (1952-2006), British actor
  • John Daniel Wild (1902-1972), American philosopher
  • John Paul Wild (1923-2008), British-born Australian scientist
  • Jonathan Wild (c.1683-1725), eighteenth-century English crime boss
  • Paul Wild (1925-2014), Swiss astronomer
  • Peter Wild (1940-2009), University of Arizona English professor and poet
  • Rudolf Wild (1904-1995), founder of the WILD GmbH & Co.KG
  • Stephen Wild (born 1981), British rugby league footballer
  • Vic Wild (born 1986), American-Russian snowboarder
Wild (Namie Amuro song)

"Wild" is a song by Japanese recording artist Namie Amuro from her ninth studio album Past (2009). The song was released as the album's lead single on March 18, 2009, featuring the b-side "Dr.". "Wild" was written and produced by Michio and T. Kura, while the latter track was written and produced by long-time collaborator Nao'ymt. The songs are electropop tracks, which features instrumentation from synthesizers and keyboards. "Wild" and "Dr." appeared as the advertising theme songs for Coca-Cola Zero and a Vidal Sassoon commercial

The songs received positive reviews from music critics, who commended the songs composition and production. Charting as a double a-side, "Wild/Dr." became Amuro's first number one single on the Japanese Oricon Singles Chart since her 1998 single " I Have Never Seen" and her tenth number one overall. Videos for both "Wild" and "Dr." were shot, the first being set on a futuristic planet while the latter was Amuro's first animated video. Both "Wild" and "Dr." have been included on two concert tours conduced by Amuro, including her Namie Amuro Best Fiction tour 2008–2009 and Namie Amuro Past<Future Tour 2010.

Wild (Jessie J song)

"Wild" is a single by English singer-songwriter Jessie J and the lead single from her second studio album, Alive (2013). The single released in the United Kingdom and Ireland features American rapper Big Sean and British MC Dizzee Rascal, while the single released in other countries such as Australia, the United States and the Netherlands only features Big Sean. It was written by Jessica Cornish, Claude Kelly, Dylan Mills, Joshua Coleman and Sean Anderson and produced by Ammo. The single was released as a download on 26 May 2013 in the United Kingdom. it reached #38 in the UK year-end chart, selling more than 300,000 copies. it also ended up at #71 in the Australian year-end chart, selling more than 150,000 copies.

Wild (2014 film)

Wild is a 2014 American biographical drama film directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. The screenplay by Nick Hornby is based on Cheryl Strayed's 2012 memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail. The film stars Reese Witherspoon as Strayed, alongside Laura Dern (as Strayed's mother), with Thomas Sadoski, Michiel Huisman and Gaby Hoffmann among several others in supporting roles. The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on August 29, 2014, and was released theatrically on December 3, 2014, in North America.

Wild opened to positive critical reviews, with much praise going toward the performances of Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern. Both actresses received Academy Award nominations for their performances, in the categories of Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, respectively.

Wild (Troye Sivan EP)

Wild is the fourth extended play (EP) by Australian singer and songwriter Troye Sivan, released on 4 September 2015 by EMI Music Australia. It is Sivan's second extended play released through a major record label after TRXYE.

Sivan embarked on his first US tour titled Troye Sivan Live in support of the EP, later extended to a world tour after announcing Wild was an introduction to his debut studio album Blue Neighbourhood.

Wild (video game)

Wild is an upcoming open world survival adventure game developed by Wild Sheep Studio and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment exclusively for the PlayStation 4.

Wild (2016 film)

Wild is a 2016 German drama film directed by Nicolette Krebitz. It was shown in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.

Wild (EP Nine Muses)

Wild is the second mini-album by the South Korean girl group Nine Muses. It was released in May 9, 2013 with the song "Wild" as the same name for promotional song.

Wild (Troye Sivan song)

"Wild" (stylised as "WILD") is a song by Australian singer and songwriter Troye Sivan from his fourth extended play (EP), Wild (2015). It was written by Sivan and Alex Hope. The song was released with the EP on 4 September 2015 and promoted as its lead single. It is also featured on Sivan's debut studio album, Blue Neighbourhood (2015).

The song reached number 16 on the ARIA Charts, becoming his second top 20 single and peaking within the top 40 in New Zealand. The song's accompanying music video was directed by Tim Mattia and released as part of Sivan's "Blue Neighbourhood" music video trilogy. The trilogy made up of "Wild", " Fools" and " Talk Me Down" was filmed in the Sydney suburb of Kurnell, New South Wales.

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Usage examples of "wild".

Now Ralph, he and his, being known for friends, these wild men could not make enough of them, and as it were, compelled them to abide there three days, feasting them, and making them all the cheer they might.

I also became acquainted there with the Count of Roquendorf and Count Sarotin, and with several noble young ladies who are called in Germany frauleins, and with a baroness who had led a pretty wild life, but who could yet captivate a man.

He knew that Tarrian was right and that even now the wolf would be silently prowling the dark edges of his addled mind to protect him from unseen dangers, just as its wilder fellows would prowl the woods in search of prey.

The impunity of rapine had increased the boldness and numbers of the wild Isaurians: those robbers descended from their craggy mountains to ravage the adjacent country, and had even presumed, though without success, to besiege the important city of Seleucia, which was defended by a garrison of three Roman legions.

She shrieked to the ravens that croaked from afar, And she sighed to the gusts of the wild sweeping wind.

Elf-lords would ride at times, even from afar, for the land was wild but very fair.

Every weekend, the Yanks had a wild brawl down on the se afront and the police were called in.

Pleistocene Age, when the world warmed up and people became much more mobile, and that the cultivation of wild species, before agriculture proper, encouraged the birth of more children.

Dandelion, Gentian and Valerian for some reason have survived and the Homeopaths use many more, but such useful plants as Agrimony, Slippery Elm, Horehound, Bistort, Poplar, Bur Marigold, Wood Betony, Wood Sanicle, Wild Carrot, Raspberry leaves, and the Sarsaparillas are now only used by Herbalists.

And albeit that the wild men know not to a day when we shall pass through their country, yet they know the time within a four and twenty hours or so.

But for all his skill in the wilds, Alec had always found towns rather baffling.

Settling beside him, Alec looked out at the wild beauty of the night and let out a happy sigh.

When a bold hunch leads them from a wild murder investigation to a red-hot love affair, Amaryllis is shocked, Lucas is delighted-- and no power on heaven, earth or St.

Fishing the seething tide-race through the main channel at full spring tide, and shouting with excitement as the golden amberjack came boiling up in the wake, bellies flashing like mirrors, to hit the dancing feather lures, and send the Penn reels screeching a wild protest, and the fibreglass rods nodding and kicking.

He had a vast holding of his own, and Ancar guessed from descriptions that it was to the south and west of Rethwellan, out in the lands purportedly still despoiled by wild magic.