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rewildings

rewildings is the plural of rewilding.

Meaning of rewilding

Noun

rewilding (usually uncountable, plural rewildings)

  1. (usually) The act of restoring a natural area to its former wild state, especially by repopulating it with animals that have been extirpated.
    • For rewilding North America, we need to find or restore some of the cogs and wheels we've already tossed into the dust bin.2004 July, Dave Foreman, Rewilding North America, Island Press, →ISBN, page 134
    Antonyms:
    dewilding, unwilding

Questions about rewildings

What is rewildings the plural of?
Rewildings is the plural of rewilding.

Words near rewildings in the dictionary

  1. rewild
  2. rewilded
  3. rewilder
  4. rewilders
  5. rewilding
  6. rewildings
  7. rewilds
  8. rewin
  9. rewind
  10. rewindable
  11. rewinded

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rewildings (page history and authors); rewilding (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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