wild

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

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