noun
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The undomesticated state of a wild animal
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After mending the lion's leg, we returned him to the wild.
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(chiefly in the plural) a wilderness
verb
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To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang.
adjective
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Untamed; not domesticated; specifically, in an unbroken line of undomesticated animals (as opposed to feral, referring to undomesticated animals whose ancestors were domesticated).
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Przewalski's horses are the only remaining wild horses.
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From or relating to wild creatures.
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wild honey
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Unrestrained or uninhibited.
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I was filled with wild rage when I discovered the infidelity, and punched a hole in the wall.
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Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
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The fraternity was infamous for its wild parties, which frequently resulted in police involvement.
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Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
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Her mother was wild with fear when she didn't return home after the party.
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Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
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After a week on the trail without a mirror, my hair was wild and dirty.
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Enthusiastic.
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I'm not wild about the idea of a two day car trip with my nephews, but it's my only option.
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Inaccurate.
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The novice archer fired a wild shot and hit her opponent's target.
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Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
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a wild roadstead
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Hard to steer; said of a vessel.
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(of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
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Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.
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Did you hear? Pat won the lottery! - Wow, that's wild!
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Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.
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In this card game, aces are wild: they can take the place of any other card.
adverb
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Inaccurately; not on target.
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The javelin flew wild and struck a spectator, to the horror of all observing.
Examples of wild in a Sentence
He couldn't help but detect her wild pulse.
Any time a wild animal isn't afraid of you, there is probably something wrong.
He was a bit wild at times, but a good kid.
Again they traveled across the wild country.
His warm breath on her neck sent her heart in a flurry of wild beats.
The country was wild and beautiful.
The people are like wild beasts!
She was letting her imagination run wild again.
The wild hills were calling, as they had in her youth.
We played games and ate dinner under the trees, and we found ferns and wild flowers.
Its cool year-round creek and rolling hills dotted with wild flowers filled her dreams at night – beckoned.
His scent drove her body wild, the mix of sweat, darkness, and man.
We... actually, I... was thinking about adopting a few wild horses from out west where they have too many.
She squinted, realizing the two furry brown monsters were men in costumes from Where the Wild Things Are.
Maybe it was the wild red hair.
One day he is sensible, well educated, and good-natured, and the next he's a wild beast....
She had now become quiet and, clinging with her little hands to Pierre's coat, sat on his arm gazing about her like some little wild animal.
We also have a couple of wild asses.
The car spun around at the bottom of the hill, spraying gravel in a wild circle.
You never sowed any wild oats in my field, damn it!
By the wild look in his eyes, she doubted she.d make it one.
You can make fun of that stuff, but a lot of wild things happened around this old mining town a hundred years ago.
Other than cataclysm, asymmetrical attack, or government gone wild, we have little to worry about.
The picture-book will tell you all about many strange and wild animals.
It is hardly as if you had seen a wild creature when a rabbit or a partridge bursts away, only a natural one, as much to be expected as rustling leaves.
The rustle of the battle of Tarutino frightened the beast, and it rushed forward onto the hunter's gun, reached him, turned back, and finally--like any wild beast--ran back along the most disadvantageous and dangerous path, where the old scent was familiar.
She had a wild urge to throw her arms around his neck and kiss the worry from his face.
Deidre struggled to absorb the wild story, unable to comprehend most of it.
Another wild adventure by the black sheep of a sister that was dear Hannah's.
All my early lessons have in them the breath of the woods--the fine, resinous odour of pine needles, blended with the perfume of wild grapes.
I love the wild not less than the good.
At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.
Hussar cornet Zherkov had at one time, in Petersburg, belonged to the wild set led by Dolokhov.
The turrets of a convent stood out beyond a wild virgin pine forest, and far away on the other side of the Enns the enemy's horse patrols could be discerned.
If he caught her in the woods, she could say she was looking for wild flowers.
It was a stupid move to walk blindly through such wild country.
Wild imagination, listening to too many stories, or maybe because I have the ranch.
My brother is a wild card.
At last the men mounted, and, as they say in the old songs, away went the steeds with bridles ringing and whips cracking and hounds racing ahead, and away went the champion hunters "with hark and whoop and wild halloo!"
But I love "The Jungle Book" and "Wild Animals I Have Known."
In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke the tender limbs.
Then he bursts into one of his wild furies and rages at everyone and everything, seizes the letters, opens them, and reads those from the Emperor addressed to others.
His golden eyes were calm, his large frame relaxed with the feline grace that made her hormones wild.
Both jumped to their feet and started around the cluster of boulders where Joseph had parked only to see the tail of Joseph Dawkins' Jeep as it bumped across the blanketing wave of wild flowers.
Back on the pavement, Dean pedaled past Tom, a well-known wild turkey who'd in past months adopted a location on the highway from which he never seemed to stray more than a few hundred yards.
I liked the simple, wild grandeur of the palisades.
I used to start them in the open land also, where they had come out of the woods at sunset to "bud" the wild apple trees.
There was nothing at all within a few feet of him, aside from knee-high wild flowers waving happily in the spring breeze.
This woman had been wild, uninhibited.
She slid to a stop, panting and wild.