Wallow

/ˈwɒ.ləʊ/ · verb

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

Pigs wallow in the mud.

O be thou my Charon, / And giue me ſwift tranſportance to theſe fieldes, / VVhere I may wallow in the lilly beds, / Propoſ'd for the deſeruer.

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

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

The fire was thrown to a great height; the fountains and jets all wallowed together; new ones appeared, and danced joyously round the margin, then converging towards the centre they merged into one glowing mass, which upheaved itself pyramidally and disappeared with a vast plunge.

“A Hot Steam’s somebody who can’t get to heaven, just wallows around on lonesome roads an‘ if you walk through him, when you die you’ll be one too, an’ you’ll go around at night suckin‘ people’s breath-”

Amongst the cruisers, it's not such good news. New Orleans is sunk; Wichita is wallowing and desperately in need of assistance, which two destroyers are providing; meanwhile, Biloxi and Vincennes are both in the process of going down and being abandoned, whilst Miami is right on the knife-edge of being recoverable, with three destroyers clustering around offering pumping and additional damage-control crews to try and keep the light cruiser afloat.

She wallowed in her misery.

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• wallows
• wallowing
• wallowed
• waller
• more wallow
• most wallow

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