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Collocations for wild - adj.

1. animals/plants

VERBS

be, grow, live
The flowers grow wild in the mountains.
The dogs live wild on the streets.

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ADVERB

truly
This is truly wild and unspoilt countryside.

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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.

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ADVERB

extremely, fairly, very, etc.
Her hair was rather wild.
absolutely
a little, slightly, etc.

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PREPOSITION

with
The crowd was wild with excitement.

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PHRASES

let your imagination run wild
I just let my imagination run wild and come up with as many ideas as I can.

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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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