About The Word Wallow
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Wallow
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What's The Definition Of Wallow?
[n] an indolent or clumsy rolling about; "a good wallow in the water"
[n] a puddle where animals go to wallow [v] delight greatly in; "wallow in your success!" [v] devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure; "Wallow in luxury"; "wallow in your sorrows" [v] be ecstatic with joy [v] roll around, as of a pig in mud [v] billow forth; as of smoke or waves Synonyms | Synonyms for Wallow: billow | rejoice | revel | triumph | welter Related Terms | Find terms related to Wallow: See Also | axial motion | axial rotation | be on cloud nine | cloud | delight | enjoy | exult | indulge | jump for joy | move | mud puddle | revel | roll | soar | soar up | soar upwards | surge | walk on air | zoom Wallow In Webster's Dictionary \Wal"low\, n.
1. Act of wallowing.
2. A place to which an animal comes to wallow; also, the
depression in the ground made by its wallowing; as, a
buffalo wallow.
\Wal"low\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wallowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wallowing}.] [OE. walwen, AS. wealwian; akin to Goth. walwjan (in comp.) to roll, L. volvere; cf. Skr. val to turn. [root]147. Cf. {Voluble Well}, n.] 1. 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. I may wallow in the lily beds. --Shak. 2. To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner. God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity. --South. 3. To wither; to fade. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] \Wal"low\, v. t. To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean. ``Wallow thyself in ashes.'' --Jer. vi. 26. \Wal"low\, n. A kind of rolling walk. One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow. --Dryden. |
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