wilden

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English

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Etymology

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From wild +‎ -en.

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Verb

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wilden (third-person singular simple present wildens, present participle wildening, simple past and past participle wildened)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to make or become wild or wilder
    • 1965, Wayland Hilton Young, Wayland Kennet, Thirty-four Articles, page 70:
      The glorification of the business-man which is the effect of the present government's capital profits, expense account and pension fund policies is ‘wildening’ our capitalism.
    • 2010, Poul Anderson, Operation Luna:
      His alembic furnished Highland spring water. We sat for a while in companionable silence. The weather wildened.
    • 2011, K. S. Mulholland, Varlarsaga, volume 2, page 114:
      In any event, our relations with Dorthillion have become poor since the ways have wildened.

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɪldən

Verb

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wilden

  1. inflection of willen:
    1. plural past indicative
    2. (dated or formal) plural past subjunctive

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Adjective

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wilden

  1. inflection of wild:
    1. strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
    2. weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
    3. strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
    4. strong dative plural
    5. weak/mixed all-case plural