wild

adj.

1 animals/plants

VERBS

▪ be, grow, live

▪

The flowers grow wild in the mountains.

▪

The dogs live wild on the streets.

ADVERB

▪ truly

▪

This is truly wild and unspoilt countryside.

2 out of control

VERBS

▪ be, look

▪

He looked wild and dangerous.

▪ go, run

▪

When the band appeared, the crowd went wild.

▪

They let their children run wild.

▪ drive sb, make sb

▪

It makes me wild (= very angry) to see such waste.

ADVERB

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

▪

Her hair was rather wild.

▪ absolutely

▪ a little, slightly, etc.

PREPOSITION

▪ with

▪

The crowd was wild with excitement.

PHRASES

▪ let your imagination run wild

▪

I just let my imagination run wild and come up with as many ideas as I can.

Wild is used with these nouns: ↑accusation, ↑allegation, ↑animal, ↑applause, ↑barley, ↑beast, ↑berry, ↑bird, ↑bunch, ↑card, ↑cat, ↑cattle, ↑coast, ↑coastline, ↑country, ↑countryside, ↑creature, ↑dancing, ↑dash, ↑dog, ↑duck, ↑elephant, ↑exaggeration, ↑excitement, ↑expectation, ↑eye, ↑fantasy, ↑fish, ↑flower, ↑fluctuation, ↑frenzy, ↑frontier, ↑fruit, ↑garlic, ↑goat, ↑goose, ↑grass, ↑guess, ↑herb, ↑herd, ↑honey, ↑hope, ↑horse, ↑idea, ↑imagination, ↑joy, ↑land, ↑landscape, ↑laughter, ↑longing, ↑look, ↑lunge, ↑mammal, ↑moor, ↑mushroom, ↑orgy, ↑pig, ↑pitch, ↑plant, ↑pony, ↑rice, ↑ride, ↑river, ↑rose, ↑rumour, ↑salmon, ↑sex, ↑sheep, ↑species, ↑speculation, ↑stab, ↑story, ↑strawberry, ↑swing, ↑talk, ↑trout, ↑turkey, ↑weather, ↑wolf