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单词 to run wild
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to run wild

phrase
If something or someone, especially a child, runs wild, they behave in a natural, free, or uncontrolled way.
Everything that could grow was running wild for lack of attention.
Molly has let that girl run wild.
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Examples of 'to run wild' in a sentence
to run wild

A potted plant, a pillow; their imagination seems to run wild.
Globe and Mail (2003)
Allowing parts of the garden to run wild will help to attract insects.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The response of the home supporters was to run wild.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
You have been allowed to run wild.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The ex-con also vowed to run wild once he was released from the house.
The Sun (2008)
The anecdotes are largely allowed to run wild.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
The imagination is evidently supposed to run wild.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
You've had your 1.75 offspring; now you need that extra bedroom, topnotch school and somewhere for the nippers to run wild.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
He claims her behaviour, including allowing the garden to run wild, had left his property almost unsaleable.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
For two hours, 30 members of the public will be allowed to run wild on an entire floor of the hotel.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)

Chinese translation of 'to run wild'

to run wild

  1. 毫无(無)管束 (háo wú guǎn shù)
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Nearby words of
to run wild

  • to run short of
  • to run sth by sb
  • to run the risk of sth/doing sth
  • to run wild
  • to run/walk about
  • to rupture o.s.
  • to rush sb into doing sth
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