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dewilds

dewilds is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dewild.

Meaning of dewild

Verb

dewild (third-person singular simple present dewilds, present participle dewilding, simple past and past participle dewilded)

  1. (rare) Synonym of unwild (“to make something not wild”).
    • The current trend is for rewilding upland habitats to make them more nature-rich but 44% of the Cairngorms national park is dewilded because of a rich man's hobby.2021 August 5, Patrick Barkham, quoting Mark Avery, “Britain's national parks dominated by driven grouse moors, says study”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media...
    Synonyms:
    unwild

Questions about dewilds

What is dewilds the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Dewilds is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dewild.

Words near dewilds in the dictionary

  1. dewikify
  2. dewikifying
  3. dewild
  4. dewilded
  5. dewilding
  6. dewilds
  7. dewily
  8. dewindtite
  9. DeWine
  10. DeWines
  11. dewiness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dewilds (page history and authors); dewild (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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