wallow
IPA: wˈɑɫoʊ
noun
- An instance of wallowing.
- A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground.
- A kind of rolling walk.
verb
- To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud.
- To move lazily or heavily in any medium.
- (figurative) To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
- To live or exist in filth or in a sickening manner.
- (UK, dialectal, of plants) To fade, fade away, wither, droop; fail to flourish.
adjective
- (now dialectal) Tasteless, flat.
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Examples of "wallow" in Sentences
- Dogs wallowed on the grass.
- Pigs wallowed in the hot mud.
- The dog loves to wallow on the grass.
- They wallow in the foolishness of it all.
- Let the cruft wallow in the Wiki shadows.
- Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
- Some of us prefer not to wallow in futility.
- You just wallow in the filth of your own mind.
- For nearly forty years, the kingdom of Kongo wallowed in civil war.
- At the party she kisses Tristan and then comes home and starts to wallow.
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