wolf
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- noun
- /wʊlf/
- During the night, a wolf howled in the distance, signaling its presence to the pack.
- pack of wolves
- wolves kill
- wolves hunt
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Watch on YouTubeOur class animal, we're wolves, so we got some T-shirts.
- Our class animal, we're wolves, so we got some T-shirts.
- And when I saw your video, I instantly saw a wolf and wolves.
- Sun shower, The wolf is giving birth.
- The soul howls like a wolf that's lost one leg in the trap.
- There's there's sheep, there's wolves and then there's wolves that eat wolves, right?
- I wake up, he goes, did you see two wolves out here fighting?
- So we have like, you know, dogs or wolves, I guess Co evolved.
- We were just like a bunch of wolves and and I.
- So we got three kinds of wolf creatures now.
Examples
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There are wolves in national parks, wolves on farms, and wolves in suburbs.
Academic text (1996) -
But we pulled up to this wolf reserve and it was awesome.
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Actually, it was a wolf that wanted to eat me.
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Will there be wolves in the forest?
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We wolves are needed in the forest as much as you are needed by people.
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There are many issues with wolf conservation or reintroduction.
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In all likelihood, the killings were simply the work of a wolf or pack of wolves, says Smith.
Academic text (2011) -
The standoff suddenly ended when the wolves disappeared, leaving as silently as they had come.
Fiction book (1990) -
According to these sources, the wolf renders a man mute by merely gazing at him.
Academic text (1996) -
The documentary highlighted the importance of wolves in maintaining the ecosystem by hunting large herbivores.
Synonyms
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A large wild animal like a dog with gray fur that lives in forests and often hunts in packs
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A large wild wolf that lives in North American forests and has grey fur
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An old word for the wild animal wolf
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
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A person who seems friendly but is actually dangerous or dishonest
- Archaic
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You are in a dangerous situation where giving up is as risky as staying
Compounds
- US
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A large wild animal like a dog with gray fur that lives in forests and often hunts in packs
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A large spider that hunts on the ground and runs to catch other animals instead of using webs
- Literature
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A boy believed to have been raised by wolves who behaves like a wild animal
- Specialized
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A white wolf that lives in Arctic North America and has a black-tipped tail
- US
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A small wild animal that looks like a dog from western North America, often called a coyote
- Australian
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A type of animal from Tasmania that looks like a dog, has stripes on its back, and is now extinct
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A large wild dog from South America with long legs, reddish fur and long hair along its neck
- South African
A wild dog-like animal from northern Africa related to jackals and wolves
A large spider from southern Europe once thought to make people dance uncontrollably
- South African
A wild animal like a hyena that eats dead animals and lives in southern Africa
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Etymology
Wolf comes from the old English word wulf and is the same word you still see in German Wolf, so it has always named the wild, dog-like animal known for hunting in packs.