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wilded

wilded is the simple past and past participle of wild.

Meaning of wild

Verb

wild (third-person singular simple present wilds, present participle wilding, simple past and past participle wilded)

  1. (intransitive, slang) To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang.
    • ...Chief of Detectives Robert Colangelo, who said the attacks appeared unrelated to money, race, drugs, or alcohol, said that some of the 20 youths brought in for questioning has told investigators that the crime spree was the product of a pastime called "wilding".
      "It's not a term that we in the...1989 April 22, David E. Pitt, “Jogger's Attackers Terrorized at Least 9 in 2 Hours”, in New York Times, page 1
  2. (intransitive, slang) (In the form wilding or wildin') To act in a strange or unexpected way.
    • They had a big influence on me. They had a big influence on Brooklyn period. I like the nonsense. [laughs] They were wildin'. Everyone in Brooklyn was liking that shit. They're wildin'. Their story in the stu, it gets deep.2021 April 6, Shirley Ju, “The New Voice of Brooklyn is Here To 'Drench 'Em'”, in Flaunt Magazine, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2022

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Adjective

wilded (comparative more wilded, superlative most wilded)

  1. Become wild.
    • J. Earle
      an old garden plant escaped and wilded

Forms of wilded

comparativemore wilded
superlativemost wilded

Phrases with wilded

Questions about wilded

What does wilded mean?
Wilded means become wild.
What is wilded the simple past and past participle of?
Wilded is the simple past and past participle of wild.
What part of speech is wilded?
Wilded is an adjective.

Words near wilded in the dictionary

  1. Wildean
  2. wildebeest
  3. wildebeesten
  4. wildebeests
  5. Wildeblood
  6. wilded
  7. wilded out
  8. wildegranaat
  9. wilden
  10. wildened
  11. Wildenhain

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wilded (page history and authors); 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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