Definition of "wilder" []

• To lead astray; mislead. (verb-transitive)
• To bewilder; perplex. (verb-transitive)
• To lose one's way. (verb-intransitive)
• To become bewildered. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I like the idea of wilder with the condition that he doesn't run at the end of the term, which he probably wouldn't want to do anyway, and then Kaine runs for for the seat in 2012."
• "He was swung into space, and all the life that had been so stationary, the booths, the lights, the men and women, the very stars went swinging with him as though to cheer him on; the horse under him galloped before, and the faster he galloped the wilder was the music and the dizzier the world."
• "Theirs must be an essentially wilder, that is, less human, nature than that of larks and robins."