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Wallow   /wˈɑloʊ/   Listen
Wallow

noun
1.
A puddle where animals go to wallow.
2.
An indolent or clumsy rolling about.
verb
(past & past part. wallowed; pres. part. wallowing)
1.
Devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure.  "Wallow in your sorrows"
2.
Roll around,.  Synonym: welter.
3.
Rise up as if in waves.  Synonym: billow.
4.
Be ecstatic with joy.  Synonyms: rejoice, triumph.
5.
Delight greatly in.






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"Wallow" Quotes from Famous Books



... we made for them (write it, Chitragupta! Set it down in symbols for the awful eye of Yum!) But they traded fun for fashion And their innocence for passion, Till they murmur in their wallow now ...
— Guns of the Gods • Talbot Mundy

... thus the land of Cameliard was waste, Thick with wet woods, and many a beast therein, And none or few to scare or chase the beast; So that wild dog and wolf and boar and bear Came night and day, and rooted in the fields, And wallow'd in the gardens of the King. And ever and anon the wolf would steal The children and devour, but now and then, Her own brood lost or dead, lent her fierce teat To human sucklings; and the children housed In her foul den, there at their meat would growl, And ...
— Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy - Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls • Various

... bowels of his enemy on the battle-field were suddenly to see before him his mother or the good and gentle wife or daughter he loved, he would drop the saber and fly to hide himself like a murderer. So, I, overwhelmed, said to myself: "I can not go on! Let these wretches wallow in their own vileness. I shall not wallow with them. ...
— The Plum Tree • David Graham Phillips

... Rougons still gnawed at his heart; but he was in one of those moods when, lying on one's back in silence, one is apt to admit stern facts, and scold oneself for neglecting to feather a comfortable nest in which one may wallow in slothful ease, even at the cost of relinquishing one's most cherished animosities. Towards evening Antoine determined to send for his brother on the following day. But when, in the morning, he saw Felicite enter the room he understood that his aid was wanted, ...
— The Fortune of the Rougons • Emile Zola

... opposite to the place, and, watching his chance, he put the helm down and ran in upon the crest of a wave, till the boat grounded in the soft sand, and began to wallow there like a dying thing. Fearing lest the back-wash should suck them off into the surf again, he rolled himself into the water, for jump he could not; indeed, it was as much as he could do to stand. With a last effort ...
— Stella Fregelius • H. Rider Haggard


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