wallow
About 0.34 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud.
Pigs wallow in the mud.
- verb To move lazily or heavily in any medium.
- verb To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
She wallowed in her misery.
- verb To live or exist in filth or in a sickening manner.
- noun An instance of wallowing.
- noun A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground.
- noun A kind of rolling walk.
- verb To fade, fade away, wither, droop; fail to flourish.
Similar words
welter billow revel triumph rejoice bath hog wallow in the mire bewallow muddle
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Word family
wallowed wallower wallowers wallowing wallows
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