wilder
verb (used with object)
to cause to lose one's way.
wilderment
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a word derived from
wilder.
Example Sentences
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Every newcomer to San Francisco is overtaken with a sense of complete be wilderment.
From Time Magazine Archive
By the time the mate saw the fire, it had crept farther; he stared in be wilderment and then spoke to the Captain through a tube.
From Time Magazine Archive
To anyone seeing the film, her be wilderment and distress seemed achingly real, but the jurors had been carefully instructed not to consider it as direct testimony.
From Time Magazine Archive
O the wilderment of the moon at him, when he appears!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II by John Payne
Whose was the hand that turned away The perils of the infuriate fray, And snatcht her breathless from beneath This wilderment of wreck and death?
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
