Usually means: Uncontrolled, unrestrained behavior or growth.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. run wild: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. run wild: Merriam-Webster
  3. run wild: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. run wild: Collins English Dictionary
  5. run wild: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. run wild: Wiktionary
  7. run wild: Dictionary.com
  8. Run Wild (Lydia album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. run wild: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Run wild: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (run wild)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To go unchecked, to be out of control.
▸ verb:  (prison slang, of prison sentences) To run consecutively.

Similar:
run riot, cut loose, run amuck, go wild, run with scissors, wild, play fast and loose, wilden, run a muck, walk on the wild side, more...

Opposite:
restrain, control, manage, regulate, moderate

Phrases:
to run wild, Let Him Run Wild, more...

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Similar:
run riot, cut loose, run amuck, go wild, run with scissors, wild, play fast and loose, wilden, run a muck, walk on the wild side, more...

Opposite:
restrain, control, manage, regulate, moderate

Phrases:
to run wild, Let Him Run Wild, more...



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