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The land of an arid environment.
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Partly or wholly uncleared forest, especially in North America.
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(by extension) Any place where things mysteriously disappear.
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Of land: low-lying and liable to be submerged.
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Pertaining to open countryside; unforested, flat.
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Someone who has a tendency to feel too cold when sleeping at night.
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Wilderness where human development is prohibited.
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One who sleeps during the daytime.
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(journalism) A news item of no real significance, usually of whimsical or sentimental nature, placed at the end of a news bulletin or in a newspaper as filler. A dead donkey can often be removed from the programme or publication if a more significant story needs extra time or space.
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(military) an area of ground hidden from an observer due to undulations in the land
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(uncountable, idiomatic, management) Personnel no longer contributing to an organization.
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Land that is or resembles a desert.
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An area that looks like one that has suffered a natural disaster.
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(by extension) A place where lost objects or people end up, and from which there is no escape.
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A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.
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(figuratively) Anything that has been deserted or abandoned, or has been empty all along.
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A land that has become deserted, like a ghost town.
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(simile) Thoroughly serious.
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(US, slang) Synonym of suicide (“beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain”)
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(of a horse or pack animal) Newly tamed; not fully domesticated for all forms of working.
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Something that hibernates.
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(figuratively) Anything vague or ill-defined, especially something that is ill understood.
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A previously inhabited area that has been abandoned and allowed to return to a wild, overgrown state.
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(South Asia) Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.
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(dialect) Lukewarm, tepid.
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(by extension) A dangerous situation.
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(figuratively) A place where no one can or should be.
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Alternative form of no man's land [(military) The ground between trenches where a soldier from either side would be easily targeted.]
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Alternative spelling of no man's land [(military) The ground between trenches where a soldier from either side would be easily targeted.]
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(military) Land that has been abandoned, in the face of an advancing enemy, after the destruction of all resources on it.
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Wild or savage; mountainous, or dwelling in the mountains.
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(chiefly poetic) A valley.
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Land that has never been explored or developed.
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(obsolete) waste ground; common land
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A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
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Alternative form of wasteland [A place with no remaining resources; a desert.]
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A barren stretch of ground; wasteland.
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Any barren or uninteresting place.
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(archaic) An open country.
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(chiefly in the plural) A wilderness.
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(uncountable) Dated spelling of wildlife.
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(by extension) A place or situation in which disorderly behavior prevails, especially due to a lack of regulatory oversight or an inadequate legal system.
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(botany) A plant growing in a state of nature, especially one that has run wild or escaped from cultivation.
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(uncountable) Uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state inhabited by wild animals and with vegetation growing wild; (countable) a tract of such land; a waste or wild.
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Obsolete spelling of wilderness [(uncountable) Uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state inhabited by wild animals and with vegetation growing wild; (countable) a tract of such land; a waste or wild.]
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(informal) Resembling or characteristic of the wilderness.
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land that is unfit for, or has not been modified by, cultivation or other human activity; a natural area.
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(archaic, regional) An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.
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(obsolete, except in placenames) A field or other piece of land.
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(informal, figuratively) Any place that is wild, crowded, or chaotic.
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