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wallow
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun wallow has 2 senses
- wallow(n = noun.object) Array - a puddle where animals go to wallow; Array is a kind of mud puddle
- wallow(n = noun.event) Array - an indolent or clumsy rolling about; "a good wallow in the water" is a kind of axial motion, axial rotation, roll
Derived form verb wallow2
Derived form verb wallow2
Verb wallow has 5 senses
- wallow(v = verb.consumption) Array - devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure; "Wallow in luxury"; "wallow in your sorrows" is one way to indulge
- wallow(v = verb.motion) welter - roll around,; "pigs were wallowing in the mud" is one way to move
- wallow(v = verb.motion) billow - rise up as if in waves; "smoke billowed up into the sky" is one way to soar, soar up, soar upwards, surge, zoom
- wallow(v = verb.emotion) rejoice, triumph - be ecstatic with joy; Array is one way to be on cloud nine, exult, jump for joy, walk on air
- wallow(v = verb.consumption) Array - delight greatly in; "wallow in your success!" is one way to delight, enjoy, revel
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Derived forms noun wallow2, noun wallow1
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
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Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something PP
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Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
wallow, v. i. [OE. walwen, AS. wealwian; akin to Goth. walwjan (in comp.) to roll, L. volvere; cf. Skr. val to turn. √147. Cf. Voluble Well, n. ].
- 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. [1913 Webster]"I may wallow in the lily beds." [1913 Webster]
- To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner. [1913 Webster]"God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity." [1913 Webster]
- To wither; to fade. [1913 Webster]
wallow, v. t.
To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean. Jer. vi. 26. [1913 Webster]
wallow, n.
- A kind of rolling walk. [1913 Webster]"One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow." [1913 Webster]
- Act of wallowing. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- A place to which an animal comes to wallow; also, the depression in the ground made by its wallowing; as, a buffalo wallow. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
wallow, v. & n.
--v.intr.
1 (esp. of an animal) roll about in mud, sand, water, etc.
2 (usu. foll. by in) indulge in unrestrained sensuality, pleasure, misery, etc. (wallows in nostalgia).
--n.
1 the act or an instance of wallowing.
2 a a place used by buffalo etc. for wallowing. b the depression in the ground caused by this.
--v.intr.
1 (esp. of an animal) roll about in mud, sand, water, etc.
2 (usu. foll. by in) indulge in unrestrained sensuality, pleasure, misery, etc. (wallows in nostalgia).
--n.
1 the act or an instance of wallowing.
2 a a place used by buffalo etc. for wallowing. b the depression in the ground caused by this.
Derivative
wallower n.
Etymology
OE walwian roll f. Gmc
THESAURUS
wallow
appreciate, baby, bask, baygall, be promiscuous, bend, blunder, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, careen, career, chase women, commit adultery, cower, cringe, crouch, cuddle, debauch, delight, dissipate, everglade, falter, fen, fenland, flounce, flounder, fornicate, get down, glade, grovel, heave, hobbyhorse, hog wallow, holm, humor, hunch, hunch down, indulge, labor, lurch, luxuriate, make heavy weather, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, mere, mire, moor, moorland, morass, moss, mud, mud flat, nestle, pamper, peat bog, philander, pitch, pitch and plunge, pitch and toss, plunge, pound, quagmire, quicksand, rake, rear, reel, relish, revel, rock, roll, rollick, salt marsh, scend, scrouch down, seethe, sleep around, slob land, slough, snuggle, sough, spoil, squat, stagger, stoop, struggle, stumble, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, sway, swing, taiga, thrash about, toss, toss and tumble, toss and turn, totter, tumble, volutation, wallop, wamble, wanton, wash, welter, whore, womanize, yawROGET THESAURUS
wallow
Lowness
VB be low, lie low, lie flat, underlie, crouch, slouch, wallow, grovel, lower.Plunge
VB plunge, dip, souse, duck, dive, plump, take a plunge, take a header, make a plunge, bathe, submerge, submerse, immerse, douse, sink, engulf, send to the bottom, get out of one's depth, go to the bottom, go down like a stone, drop like a lead balloon, founder, welter, wallow.Rotation
VB rotate, roll along, revolve, spin, turn round, circumvolve, circulate, gyre, gyrate, wheel, whirl, pirouette, twirl, trundle, troll, bowl, roll up, furl, wallow, welter, box the compass, spin like a top, spin like a teetotum, spin out.
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