Definition of "wilding" []

• A plant that grows wild or has escaped from cultivation, especially a wild apple tree or its fruit. (noun)
• A wild animal. (noun)
• Slang The act or practice of going about in a group threatening, robbing, or attacking others. (noun)
• Growing wild; not cultivated. (adjective)
• Undomesticated. (adjective)

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.

• "The term wilding properly pronounced “whylin” is an early hiphop term that was in use way before the police used it, for just someone acting out of control."
• " The term wilding was used to describe the attack of a White woman in Central Park in the late 1980s."
• "But you do ask: Why not use the term wilding to talk about what the rape survivor said happened at Duke."