Associations to the word «Wallow»

Wiktionary

WALLOW, verb. (intransitive) To roll oneself 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.
WALLOW, verb. (intransitive) To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
WALLOW, verb. (intransitive) To roll; especially, to roll in anything defiling or unclean, as a hog might do to dust its body to relieve the distress of insect biting or cool its body with mud.
WALLOW, verb. (intransitive) To live in filth or gross vice; to behave in a beastly and unworthy manner.
WALLOW, verb. (intransitive) (UK) (Scotland) (dialect) To wither; to fade.
WALLOW, noun. An instance of wallowing.
WALLOW, noun. A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground.
WALLOW, noun. A kind of rolling walk.
WALLOW, adjective. (now dialectal) Tasteless, flat.
WALLOW IN THE MIRE, verb. Used other than as an idiom. To roll around in mud or dirt
WALLOW IN THE MIRE, verb. (figuratively) (idiomatic)

Dictionary definition

WALLOW, noun. A puddle where animals go to wallow.
WALLOW, noun. An indolent or clumsy rolling about; "a good wallow in the water".
WALLOW, verb. Devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure; "Wallow in luxury"; "wallow in your sorrows".
WALLOW, verb. Roll around, "pigs were wallowing in the mud".
WALLOW, verb. Rise up as if in waves; "smoke billowed up into the sky".
WALLOW, verb. Be ecstatic with joy.
WALLOW, verb. Delight greatly in; "wallow in your success!".

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