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wild

adjective

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wild adjective (NOT THOUGHT ABOUT)

wild guess How did you know that? Was it just a wild guess?

take a wild guess Go on, take a wild guess.

Idioms

wild

noun

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in the wild

Animals would produce more young in the wild than they do in the zoo.

He wouldn't last long if forced to fend for himself in the wild.

(Definition of wild from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

wild | American Dictionary

wild

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/wɑɪld/

wild adjective, adverb [-er/-est only] (NATURAL)

wild

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wild adjective [-er/-est only] (NOT CONTROLLED)

When I told him what I’d done, he went wild (= became angry).

Idiom

wild

us

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/wɑɪld/

wild noun [U] (NATURAL)

(Definition of wild from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)