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wallow

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verb/ˈwɒ.ləʊ/
  1. 1

    To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud.intransitive

    • Pigs wallow in the mud.
  2. 2

    To move lazily or heavily in any medium.intransitive

    • “A Hot Steam’s somebody who can’t get to heaven, just wallows around on lonesome roads an‘ if you walk through him, when you die you’ll be one too, an’ you’ll go around at night suckin‘ people’s breath-”
  3. 3

    To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.figurativelyintransitive

    • She wallowed in her misery.
    • With Smithers out of the picture I was free to wallow in my own crapulence.
  4. 4

    To live or exist in filth or in a sickening manner.intransitive

    • God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity.
    • The floors are at times inches deep with dirt and scraps of clothing. The whole place wallows with putrefaction. In some of the rooms it would seem that there had not been a breath of fresh air for five years.
noun/ˈwɒ.ləʊ/
  1. 1

    An instance of wallowing.intransitive

  2. 2

    A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground.intransitive

    • However, we have no time to linger, and picking our way among the countless buffalo wallows which indent the level surface of the summit, the wagon, […]
    • Soon, the incessant wind would dry the stenchy wallow to corduroyed cement.
  3. 3

    A kind of rolling walk.intransitive

verb/ˈwɒ.ləʊ/
  1. 1

    To fade, fade away, wither, droop; fail to flourish.UKdialectalintransitive

adj/ˈwɒ.ləʊ/
  1. 1

    Tasteless, flat.dialectalintransitive

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