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unwilding

unwilding is the present participle and gerund of unwild.

Meaning of unwild

Verb

unwild (third-person singular simple present unwilds, present participle unwilding, simple past and past participle unwilded)

  1. To make something not wild; to tame, civilize.
    • "We are unwilded almost from birth," says Marc Bekoff author of Rewilding Our Hearts and professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Bekoff says it's natural for humans to want to live more in sync with their natural surroundings.2014 November 25, Natalie DiBlasio, quoting Marc Bekoff, “Wild things: More 9-5'ers 'undoing domestication'”, in USA Today, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2020
    Synonyms:
    dewild

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Questions about unwilding

What is unwilding the present participle and gerund of?
Unwilding is the present participle and gerund of unwild.

Words near unwilding in the dictionary

  1. unwigging
  2. unwiggings
  3. unwigs
  4. unwild
  5. unwilded
  6. unwilding
  7. unwilds
  8. unwilful
  9. unwilfully
  10. unwilfulness
  11. unwill

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