Wallow

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To roll the body about indolently or clumsily in or as if in water, snow, or mud.
  • verb-intransitive. To luxuriate; revel: wallow in self-righteousness.
  • verb-intransitive. To be plentifully supplied: wallowing in money.
  • verb-intransitive. To move with difficulty in a clumsy or rolling manner; flounder: "The car wallowed back through the slush, with ribbons of bright water trickling down the windshield from the roof” ( Anne Tyler).
  • verb-intransitive. To swell or surge forth; billow.
  • n. The act or an instance of wallowing.
  • n. A pool of water or mud where animals go to wallow.
  • n. The depression, pool, or pit produced by wallowing animals.
  • n. A condition of degradation or baseness.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.
  • v. To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
  • v. To roll; especially, to roll in anything defiling or unclean, as a hog might do to dust its body to relieve the distress of insect biting or cool its body with mud.
  • v. To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.
  • v. To wither; to fade.
  • n. An instance of wallowing.
  • n. A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow.
  • n. A kind of rolling walk.
  • adj. Tasteless, flat.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder.
  • verb-intransitive. To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.
  • verb-intransitive. To wither; to fade.
  • v. To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean.
  • n. A kind of rolling walk.
  • n. Act of wallowing.
  • n. A place to which an animal comes to wallow; also, the depression in the ground made by its wallowing.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To roll; tumble about.
  • To roll the body in sand, mire, water, or other yielding substance.
  • To plunge into some course or condition; dwell with satisfaction in, addict one's self to, or remain in some way of life or habit, especially a sensual or vicious one.
  • To roll.
  • n. The act of rolling or tumbling, as in sand or mire.
  • n. A rolling gait.
  • n. A place to which an animal, as a buffalo, resorts to wallow; also, the traces of its wallowing left in the mire.
  • n. The alder-tree.
  • To fade away; wither; droop.
  • Insipid; tasteless.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. rise up as if in waves
  • v. delight greatly in
  • v. devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure
  • n. an indolent or clumsy rolling about
  • n. a puddle where animals go to wallow
  • v. roll around,
  • v. be ecstatic with joy
  • Verb Form
    wallowed    wallowing    wallows   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    revel    enjoy    delight    indulge    axial rotation    roll    axial motion    mud puddle    move    walk on air   
    Cross Reference
    tumble   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    flounder    wither    fade    roll    welter    muddle    indulge    revel    rollick    luxuriate   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Apollo    Rollo    apollo    calo    cefalo    dalo    follow    hollow    malo    salo