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wallow
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Word definitions for wallow in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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. To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ If you were fond of hot water, you wallowed in a sunken basin. ▪ It wallowed alongside, its big engines growling. ▪ Nor was he a man who wallowed constantly in self-pity. ▪ Water buffalo pulled plows or wallowed in the paddies. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English wealwian "to roll," from West Germanic *walwon , from PIE root *wel- (3) "to roll" (see volvox ). Figurative sense of "to plunge and remain in some state or condition" is attested from early 13c. Related: Wallowed ; wallowing . The noun is recorded ...
Usage examples of wallow.
Burnside wallowed before an abstraction, and Burnside is not Houdini when it comes to abstractions.
With a backhand swing of his gun, The Shadow cuffed the second mastiff so forcibly that it lost its balance and wallowed like a puppy.
One mastodont was wallowing in the mud of a shallow water hole, its fringe crusted with late-winter ice.
The dilapidated wagon had fallen to pieces in midstream, bits of wood and precious bundles of produce floating away as the master wallowed helplessly.
Thus with his brain full of manifold and multiform thoughts of the past did Cormac mac Art sit and wallow in days gone by, and avoid thereby thinking of the present and future.
She wallowed in this contrast of cold and heat, of pure animal comfort, and hard palliasse below with rough blankets above.
Vetch and the rest of the dragon boys had all rehearsed what they were to do, and after the sun set and all the dragons had settled, they had gone down every row of pens and pulled the canvas awnings over every one of the sand wallows.
And where the Scaum wallows through a broad dale, purple with horse-blossom, pocked white and gray with crumbling castles, the Derna has sheered a steep canyon, overhung by forested bluffs.
The sea rose in precipitous mountain-masses, and anon wallowed in black abysmal chasms,--the clouds flew in a fierce rack overhead like the forms of huge witches astride on eagle-shaped monsters,--and with it all there was a close heat in the air, notwithstanding the tearing wind,--a heat and a sulphureous smell, suggestive of some pent-up hellish fire that but waited its opportunity to break forth and consume the land.
In the slough of uncleanliness wallows The he-goat, and revels the hog.
This tumbled about in the spotlights, wallowed a great unmuscled expanse of rump and bounced a mammoth front at the audience, jeering with laughter, railed off the stage in grisly flounces of flesh.
MetaCop says, turning around, sneering at her through the antiballistic glass, wallowing in power.
To-day wallowing in luxury, and to-morrow reduced to the coarsest and most homely fare.
The cockboat wallowed from side to side as the taller man stepped to the stern.
Half listening to Cagan and the other agents, half wallowing in should-have-be ens she walked back to the empty boxes and stared at the pile of plastic disklike devices.