Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Wilder

Wilder , transitive verb

[Akin to English wild, Danish forvilde to bewilder, Icelandic villr bewildered, villa to bewilder; compare Anglo-Saxon wildor a wild animal. See Wild, a., and compare Wilderness.]

To bewilder; to perplex.
Long lost and wildered in the maze of fate. — Pope
Again the wildered fancy dreams Of spouting fountains, frozen as they rose. — Bryant