Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cause to lose the way or track; puzzle with mazes or difficulties; bewilder.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To bewilder; to perplex.
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- verb To
bewilder ,perplex - adjective
comparative form ofwild : morewild
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun United States writer and dramatist (1897-1975)
- noun United States filmmaker (born in Austria) whose dark humor infused many of the films he made (1906-2002)
Etymologies
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Examples
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I like the idea of wilder with the condition that he doesn't run at the end of the term, which he probably wouldn't want to do anyway, and then Kaine runs for for the seat in 2012.
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He was swung into space, and all the life that had been so stationary, the booths, the lights, the men and women, the very stars went swinging with him as though to cheer him on; the horse under him galloped before, and the faster he galloped the wilder was the music and the dizzier the world.
Jeremy Hugh Walpole 1912
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Theirs must be an essentially wilder, that is, less human, nature than that of larks and robins.
Cape Cod 1865
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This album is much less about technical perfection and much more about a kind of wilder expression, which has been such a joy for me.
Mike Ragogna: A Tiger Suit, Junip & Great Companions: Conversations with KT Tunstall, Dar Williams, and José González, plus a KT Video Exclusive Mike Ragogna 2010
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Before joining Jones, Monroe had done some work for "wilder" directors like Bob Clampett and Frank Tashlin, and has a slightly looser, wackier style than some of the other Jones animators -- though always keeping closely to Jones's pose drawings Jones didn't give his animators as much room to improvise as some of the other directors.
Archive 2006-02-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2006
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Then she has the balls to go and say to me "when you turn eighteen, you might be 'wilder' too."
missfickles Diary Entry missfickles 2006
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While a Spider-Man type device is one of the gadget's "wilder" applications, the invention's enormous surface tension has potential uses as a small-scale explosive device with significant power, Vogel stated.
Stories from The Sun 2010
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While a Spider-Man type device is one of the gadget's "wilder" applications, the invention's enormous surface tension has potential uses as a small-scale explosive device with significant power, Vogel stated.
Stories from The Sun 2010
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That's the second reason she had an advantage: to counter the perceived "wilder" aspects of her character inherited from the dissolute poet, young Ada was actually encouraged to study math and science.
Cocktail Party Physics Jennifer Ouellette 2009
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Looking for a pet that is 'wilder' than a dog or a cat?
WN.com - Articles related to New Evidence Of Culture In Wild Chimpanzees 2009
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