'Wallow' definitions:

Definition of 'wallow'

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

Definition of 'Wallow'

From: GCIDE
  • 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.] [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • I may wallow in the lily beds. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. 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. --South. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To wither; to fade. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Wallow'

From: GCIDE
  • Wallow \Wal"low\, v. t. To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean. "Wallow thyself in ashes." --Jer. vi. 26. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Wallow'

From: GCIDE
  • Wallow \Wal"low\, n. A kind of rolling walk. [1913 Webster]
  • One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Act of wallowing. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • 3. 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.]

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