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wolf

/wʊlf/noun, verb1 syllable

Wolf means: a cruelly rapacious person.

Synonyms for wolf11

noun, as in a cruelly rapacious person

beast, savage, brute, wildcat

noun, as in a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women

woman chaser, skirt chaser, masher

noun, as in Austrian composer (1860-1903)

Hugo Wolf

noun, as in German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824)

Friedrich August Wolf

verb, as in eat hastily

wolf down

also used for wolf

gulp down

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What does wolf mean?6

noun

1

a cruelly rapacious person

2

a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women

3

Austrian composer (1860-1903)

4

German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824)

5

any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs

verb

1

eat hastily“The teenager wolfed down the pizza”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Wolf in a sentence

  • Hearing this wonderful song, the world howled, like a wolf.Teashrock
  • I saw a wolf, a fox, and a rabbit.eleutherothentes1
  • The wolf is weaker than the lion, but doesn't perform in the circus.Ooneykcall
  • He's always been so exuberant, he doesn't really seem like a lone wolf.felidad
  • Go, but a hungry wolf might roam there.AlanF_US
  • Go, but a hungry wolf might prowl around there.AlanF_US
  • Yesterday, we saw a big wolf in the forest.baudelaire
  • The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature.shekitten

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of wolf

as a noun

plural
wolves

as a verb

past tense
wolfed
present participle
wolfing
third-person singular
wolfs
past participle
wolfed