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Wilder

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Wil·der  (wldr), Billy 1906-2002.
Austrian-born American filmmaker whose works include Double Indemnity (1944), Some Like It Hot (1959), and Fedora (1978).
Wilder, Laura Ingalls 1867-1957.
American writer of novels, such as Little House on the Prairie (1935), based on her childhood on the American frontier.
Wilder, Thornton (Niven) 1897-1975.
American writer whose works include novels, such as The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927), and the theatrically innovative drama Our Town (1938).
wil·der  (wldr)
v. wil·dered, wil·der·ing, wil·ders Archaic
v.tr.
1. To lead astray; mislead.
2. To bewilder; perplex.
v.intr.
1. To lose one's way.
2. To become bewildered.
[Perhaps Middle English *wildren, blend of wilden, to be wild (from wilde, wild; see wild) and wanderen, to wander; see wander.]
wilder·ment n.
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Noun1.WilderWilder - United States writer and dramatist (1897-1975)
Thornton Niven Wilder, Thornton Wilder
2.Wilder - United States filmmaker (born in Austria) whose dark humor infused many of the films he made (1906-2002)
Billy Wilder, Samuel Wilder


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I recognised its social values, I saw its ordered happiness, but a fever in my blood asked for a wilder course.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
At those times, as the howlings and wailings and shrieking of the singers, and the ragings and roarings and explosions of the vast orchestra rose higher and higher, and wilder and wilder, and fiercer and fiercer, I could have cried if I had been alone.
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As soon as he was out of the town he had the folly to enter a forest; this was many years ago, when that region was wilder than it is now.
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