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.
- I think a wallow is good for the soul on occasion.
- 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.
- And then, for a short story I fix my eye on the end point and let the rest happen; for a novel I kind of wallow, and try to keep the process playful and not-a-chore and not close off too many possibilities.
- If you’ve ever heard Bill Maher speak on the subject of religion, you know my views. hopefully you agree with him. but you can always help yourself. just dont lay there in wallow in your pity and the need for sympathy from others.
- Later on, he was wont to say that this poverty had been the best possible thing for him, its enforced abstinences having come just at the time when he had begun to "wallow" -- his word for any sort of excess; and "wallowing" was undoubtedly a peril to which Norbert's temper particularly exposed him.