What is "wallows"

Usage examples of "wallows".

When you throttle it down, the vessel sinks into the water again and wallows like a hog.

Bader Von Vechten lies sprawled out on top of his tangle of sheets and blankets and pillows, on the sagging mattress of a double bed in a single room at the back of the Skyway Motel, off the interstate somewhere in the middle of Nebraska, and, comfortable in the very squalor of it, he wallows with a carelessness and ease that he has otherwise forgotten how to have.