[
UK
/wˈaɪldɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈwaɪɫdɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈwaɪɫdɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- a wild uncultivated plant (especially a wild apple or crabapple tree)
- an outrageous rampage usually involving sexual attacks by men on women
How To Use wilding In A Sentence
- The police announced to a press hungry for sensational crime stories that the young men had been part of a gang of teenagers who were out wilding.
- No wonder old Jocelyn had called her "wilding" -- she was indeed a "wilding" or weed, -- growing up unwanted in the garden of the world, destined to be pulled out of the soil where she had nourished and thrown contemptuously aside. Innocent : her fancy and his fact
- Enter Magee Mor Matthew, a rugged rough rugheaded kern, in strossers with a buttoned codpiece, his nether stocks bemired with clauber of ten forests, a wand of wilding in his hand. Ulysses
- Teens were wilding in the park, assaulting people at random and creating a tense atmosphere throughout the city.
- Looks like the rewilding is proceeding beyond expevctations. Florida Vet Bags 17-Foot Python
- The word "rewilding" became an essential part of talk among conservationists in the late 1990s when two well-known conservation biologists, Michael Soulé and Reed Noss, wrote a now classic paper called "Rewilding and biodiversity: Complementary Goals for Continental Conservation. Marc Bekoff: Rewilding Our Hearts: Maintaining Hope and Faith in Trying Times
- GTL series hole - passing connecting tube is made of friction - wilding craft , both top quality.
- The palm trees were wilding outside, hissing and clapping. A DARKENING STAIN
- So much he told the seekers in few words; and then while they grovelled on the earth and wept for pure joy, whereas the sun was down and it was beginning to grow dusk, he went and looked around soberly to see if he might find water and any kind of victual; and presently a little down the hillside he came upon a place where a spring came gushing up out of the earth and ran down toward the plain; and about it was green grass growing plentifully, and a little thicket of bramble and wilding fruit-trees. The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men
- Rewilding may appeal to ideological purists but the reality is very different. Times, Sunday Times
