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wallow

[wol-oh]

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verb (used without object)

to roll about or lie in water, snow, mud, dust, or the like, as for refreshment: Goats wallowed in the dust.

to live self-indulgently; luxuriate; revel: to wallow in luxury; to wallow in sentimentality.

to flounder about; move along or proceed clumsily or with difficulty: A gunboat wallowed toward port.

to surge up or billow forth, as smoke or heat: Waves of black smoke wallowed into the room.

noun

an act or instance of wallowing.

a place in which animals wallow: hog wallow; an elephant wallow.

the indentation produced by animals wallowing: a series of wallows across the farmyard.

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Origin:
before 900; Middle English walwe, Old English wealwian to roll; cognate with Gothic walwjan; akin to Latin volvere

Synonyms
2. swim, bask.

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Experts who wallow in the admission of error erode the credibility of their mavenhood.

Ain't gonna happen, no matter how much adjuncts starve themselves and wallow in offal.

Also, elephants wallow in mud and spread dust on their skin.

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Experts who wallow in the admission of error erode the credibility of their mavenhood.

Ain't gonna happen, no matter how much adjuncts starve themselves and wallow in offal.

Also, elephants wallow in mud and spread dust on their skin.

They will also wallow in mud for the same purpose-and to gain relief from insects.

They're crowded into feedlots where they wallow in their own filth as they are larded up with saturated fat.

Along the way are campgrounds, covered bridges, waterfalls and even a major moose wallow.

Early risers and those who have not slept wallow confusedly in the solar judgment.

That's when you wallow in the wilderness and also dress for dinner.

Yes, you're right, let them wallow in their own incompetence.

I'd have thought the whole world would embrace a bath you can wallow in.

When the sun is high, they often wallow or submerge themselves in water.

Vouchers will leave the poorest students to wallow in a public school system with even fewer resources than before.

Mentor exhorts you not to wallow in angst or guilt about possessing the power you have.

One reason why women may be doing so well on the reservations is their refusal to wallow in self-pity.

Runoff from the pool created this water hole, where warthogs come to wallow.

Those who denigrate their own past are left to wallow in nostalgia or remain prey to tomorrow's rerun hucksters.

For an adjunct to survive, there is too little time for a wallow or a wine.

We'll wallow in the leisure of a world where machines do all of the work.

Below, icebergs and big trawlers wallow in the swell.

Profits, and shares, wallow as food firms cope with rising costs.

But he is too busy, and intellectually active, to wallow in gloom or pessimism.

Fond as they are of saying where they are from, they do not typically wallow in sentimental localism.

Those who loved it could indulge in a satisfying farewell wallow.

Don't wallow in uncertainty and waste time and energy on worry.

The intense heat brings even a rhino from afar to wallow in the water.

All the countries that wallow in poverty are in the grip of a population explosion.

Katie, unfortunately, isn't the film's only character who likes to wallow in strident self-pity.

Just as a person can wallow in faults, a person can ruminate in happiness.

It is simply a ribald wallow in the cheapness of an ugly phase of life.

Before hanging up the phone, she declared her unwillingness to wallow in such paranoia.

They also wallow in mud, perhaps to remove pesky ticks from their thick hides.

They want to ignore the science and wallow in the details of a manufactured controversy.

He shook his head, but then he insisted he would not allow the team to wallow in its slump.

While it serves no long-term benefit for you or your career, the temporary wallow in self-pity should be treated with.

Google doesn't let you wallow in your eccentricities.

It's a good place to wallow in the stagnant muck while delaying life for the time being.

Let other people wallow in magazines and books devoted to cutting.

So he did not permit himself to wallow in one defeat.

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World English Dictionary

wallow (ˈwɒləʊ)

—vb
1.	(esp of certain animals) to roll about in mud, water, etc, for pleasure
2.	to move about with difficulty
3.	to indulge oneself in possessions, emotion, etc: to wallow in self-pity
4.	(of smoke, waves, etc) to billow

—n
5.	the act or an instance of wallowing
6.	a muddy place or depression where animals wallow

[Old English wealwian to roll (in mud); related to Latin volvere to turn, Greek oulos curly, Russian valun round pebble]

'wallower

—n

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wallow

O.E. wealwian "to roll," from W.Gmc. *walwojan, from PIE *wal-, *wel- "to roll" (see vulva). Fig. sense of "to plunge and remain in some state or condition" is attested from c.1230. The noun is recorded from 1591.

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"Nobody who has any kind of creative imagination can possibly be anything but disappointed with real life.... Of course, you could always argue that you live more intensely in your mental world-substitute than we who only wallow in the real thing.... But the trouble is that you can't be content to stick to your beautiful ersatz. You have to descend into evening clothes and Ciro's and chorus girls—and perhaps even politics ... with lamentable results. Because you're not at home with these lumpy bits of matter. They depress you, they bewilder you, they shock you and sicken you and make a fool of you."

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