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went wild

went wild is the simple past of go wild.

Meaning of go wild

Verb

go wild (third-person singular simple present goes wild, present participle going wild, simple past went wild, past participle gone wild)

  1. (idiomatic) To become very noisy and excited.
    • Brazil scored, and the crowd went wild!
    Antonyms:
    go mild
  2. (idiomatic, imperative) To go ahead; do as one pleases (used to grant permission for or to give endorsement of a suggestion or proposal, especially when the speaker is not interested in the outcome of the proposal).
  3. To land or pass wildly off-target.
    • The policeman's first two shots went wild before he took down the gunman with his third.

Questions about went wild

What is went wild the simple past of?
Went wild is the simple past of go wild.

Words near went wild in the dictionary

  1. went west
  2. went whacks
  3. went whistle
  4. went whole hog
  5. went wide
  6. went wild
  7. went with
  8. went with a swing
  9. went with one's gut
  10. went with the flow
  11. went with the flow of traffic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: went wild (page history and authors); go wild (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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