Crossword clues for wallowed
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.
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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.
I may wallow in the lily beds.
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To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.
God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity.
--South. To wither; to fade. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: wallow)
Usage examples of "wallowed".
And-still the ship wallowed over the glittering sea, trapped in its own stench of stack gas and cabbages.
As if the cruiser could not detect the escort, now nearly in its path, it wallowed on.
The weather was warm but not oppressive, and while F'nor and Lessa ate their noonday meal, the two dragons wallowed in the water, refreshing themselves.
They scolded Ruth much more unkindly than Jaxom did if he wallowed too deeply in the waves when they wanted to rinse him.
The mine popped up suddenly in the Caine's wake and wallowed low in the water, a big rusty ball knobbed with little horns.
And when the wind pushed the smoke aside Bolitho saw that already they had moved well clear of the anchored ships, and while the Telamon wallowed round to follow the battered Indomitable, the Hermes was already clawing about to take station astern of her once more.
But now as she wallowed back Bolitho could almost feel the torment within her hull as the sea explored the rents left by that one smashing broadside.
She cursed again her crooked green-gold body that wallowed and lashed through the water so awkwardly.
She wallowed clumsily after him, knowing she could never match his swiftness.
In long-ago autumns, serpents had wallowed out of the river onto the sheltered beaches there.
Oh, and how we wallowed in our greatness, celebrating all we had conquered and claimed!
Its long body wallowed on the surface, sending up sprays of silver water as it thrashed.
April had never enjoyed living in Montana, while Maddie had wallowed in it like a delighted child.
I should have let folks know that I believed in him, trusted him, but instead I wallowed in my own grief and didn't see what my neglect was doing to him.
Without the power to punch through the skull twice, the lead had wallowed around in the brain, destroying tissue as it went.