"sow wild oats" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "sows wild oats",
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    },
    {
      "form": "sowing wild oats",
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    },
    {
      "form": "sowed wild oats",
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    {
      "form": "sown wild oats",
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    {
      "form": "sowed wild oats",
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        "1": "sow<,,,sown:sowed> wild oats"
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "word": "sow one's wild oats"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1914, W. Grant Hague, The Eugenic Marriage, volume 2",
          "text": "That many able men have sown wild oats is indisputable, and that many men who are respectful husbands, have also gone \"through the mill\" is also true, but this need not blind us to the fact that thousands upon thousands, who could have been successful men of affairs and creditable husbands and fathers, have been utterly ruined, as a result of having sown wild oats.",
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        }
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        "Alternative form of sow one's wild oats"
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  "word": "sow wild oats"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sows wild oats",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sowing wild oats",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sowed wild oats",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sown wild oats",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sowed wild oats",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1914, W. Grant Hague, The Eugenic Marriage, volume 2",
          "text": "That many able men have sown wild oats is indisputable, and that many men who are respectful husbands, have also gone \"through the mill\" is also true, but this need not blind us to the fact that thousands upon thousands, who could have been successful men of affairs and creditable husbands and fathers, have been utterly ruined, as a result of having sown wild oats.",
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  "word": "sow wild oats"
}