wilder

1. comparativecomparative form of wild: more wild

present singular third person wilders · participle present wildering · participle past wildered · past wildered

1. To bewilder, perplex

   Now, to smother noise and light, Is stolen abroad the wildering night,

   1922 A. E. Housman, Last Poems XXIV, lines 29-30

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   Now in their hearts those wildered Trojans said That once more they beheld Achilles' self Gigantic in his armour.

   1913, Smyrnaeus Quintus, The Fall of Troy

   More tender, grateful than she could have dreamed, Fond hands passed pitying over brows and hair, And gentle words borne softly through the air, Calming her weary sense and wildered mind, By welcome, dear communion with her kind.

   1879, Emma Lazarus, The Poems of Emma Lazarus

   Deep and far within the ether stretched my eyes their anxious gaze, While the swelling thoughts within me grew a wild and wildered maze, Then came floating on the distance, softly to my listening ears, Low, thrilling harmonies of worlds whirling in their bright spheres.

   1854, Effie Afton, Eventide

plural Wilders

1. countableA surname.
2. A number of places in the United States:
   1. countableuncountableA ghost town in California.
   2. countableuncountableA city in Canyon County, Idaho.
   3. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Johnson County, Kansas.
   4. countableuncountableA city in Campbell County, Kentucky.
   5. countableuncountableA minor city in Jackson County, Minnesota.
   6. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Fentress County, Tennessee.
   7. countableuncountableA census-designated place and village in the town of Hartford, Windsor County, Vermont.