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wilder

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for wilder.

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UK utilities I've always assumed are doing this hence the wilder and wilder over-estimation of bills in order to hold more customers cash.

Examples18
Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

To bewilder, perplex

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of wilder gathered in one view.

verb

To bewilder, perplex

noun

A number of places in the United States:

noun

A city in Canyon County, Idaho.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for wilder.

verb

To bewilder, perplex

noun

A number of places in the United States:

noun

A city in Canyon County, Idaho.

noun

A city in Campbell County, Kentucky.

Example sentences

1

UK utilities I've always assumed are doing this hence the wilder and wilder over-estimation of bills in order to hold more customers cash.

2

Maybe peat as well - it's still a fairly common fuel in the wilder parts of Scotland.

3

But if this means that the era of zero interest rates is here to stay for longer then the party in Silicon valley is about to get even wilder.

4

Some of the wilder valuations are obviously being driven by speculation about wild growth rates.

5

If so, is this fact (even wilder guess) a special case of some kind of central-limit-theorem-ish statement that holds for geometrical objects?

6

Today I left the social gathering I went to early, and avoided a wilder party and a late-night movie.

7

No wilder than Greece and Cyprus or the UK and the Falklands.

8

However if you look back at, say, the 19th century you can see that the swings were much wilder and occurred much more often.

9

Look at wilder wifi options too - if there's no connectivity at the house, do you have line-of-sight to somewhere which is better connected?

10

I'm slowly collecting these theories - and the wilder the notions the better when it comes to brain controlling parasites.

11

More recently, Lutus has divided his time between writing articles on diverse topics and exploring the wilder regions of Alaska to photograph grizzly bears.

12

I too am thinking the older wilder web had something that has been lost nowadays.

Quote examples

1

It's like a rocket exhaust: the "wilder" it is the weaker it is.

2

I rather correlate helmet-wearing cyclists to be the "wilder" bikers - since they know that they'll drive dangerously, they better wear a helmet to (feel to?) reduce the most dangerous consequences.

3

To quote the late (and great) Billy Wilder: "The Austrians have completed the feat of turning Beethoven into an Austrian, and Hitler into a German." Stuhlinger was part of similar effort, downplaying von Braun role in Nazi war effort (including use of slave labour).

Proper noun examples

1

Unless he's Van Wilder, that may not be the best social situation in the world.

2

Not particularly on-topic but I couldn't help read this in the excited voice of Gene Wilder.

3

Wilder idea: the game runs so slow to let you carefully place many cells, and give _some_ hope of reacting events in real time, right?

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use wilder in a sentence?

UK utilities I've always assumed are doing this hence the wilder and wilder over-estimation of bills in order to hold more customers cash.

What does wilder mean?

To bewilder, perplex

What part of speech is wilder?

wilder is commonly used as verb, noun.