rewilds

Verb

rewild (third-person singular simple present rewilds, present participle rewilding, simple past and past participle rewilded)

1. To return an area to a more wild state, especially to repopulate it with wild animals that have become extirpated.
   • Told in the form of a personal journey, Paul Martin's book covers his own boyhood bird-watching, graduate work in evolutionary biology, and a distinguished academic career; it culminates in a daring plan to truly rewild North America.2005, Paul Schultz Martin, Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America, University of California Press, →ISBN, page XIII