Wallow

Quick meaning: Wallow is a verb meaning To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud.

Meaning

To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud.

More Meanings

1. To move lazily or heavily in any medium.
2. (figurative) To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
3. To live or exist in filth or in a sickening manner.
4. An instance of wallowing.
5. A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground.
6. A kind of rolling walk.
7. (UK, dialectal, of plants) To fade, fade away, wither, droop; fail to flourish.

Example Sentences

Pigs wallow in the mud.

She wallowed in her misery.

When Manſoul trampled upon things Divine, / And wallowed in filth as doth a ſwine:

Make ye him drunken: for hee magnified himselfe against the Lord: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shalbe in derision.

Word Forms

• wallows
• wallowing
• wallowed
• waller

Synonyms for wallow

Depending on context, synonyms include bask, indulge, luxuriate, revel, rollick, welter.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include welter, billow, revel, triumph, rejoice, bath.

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