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Definition of wallow in English: wallowverb ˈwɒləʊˈwɑloʊ [no object]1(chiefly of large mammals) roll about or lie in mud or water, especially to keep cool or avoid biting insects. there were watering places where buffalo liked to wallow Example sentencesExamples - Now all that's left are guns and herds of overweight buffalo wallowing across a subcontinent of syrup.
- There was the engine, sparkling clean and just waiting to purr like a kitten, but the rest of the boat looked like a greased pig had wallowed up and down the route to the engine compartment many times.
- Those who relish the contradiction of something so bad it's good, will wallow like pigs in clover.
- A lot of people want to wallow like hippos at a waterhole when they go on holiday, and there's nothing wrong with that.
- When the giant waves struck the coast of Kenya, Owen was wallowing with his herd in the ocean near the mouth of the Sabaki River.
- Cape buffalo prefer areas of open pasture, close to jungle and swampy ground where they can wallow.
- The next morning I awoke to the bellows, grunts and snorts of a dozen huge elephant seals wallowing on the black beach below the sleeping dongas (cargo containers).
Synonyms loll about/around, lie about/around, tumble about/around, splash about/around slosh, wade, paddle, slop, squelch, welter informal splosh - 1.1 (of a boat or aircraft) roll from side to side.
a ship wallowing in stormy seas Example sentencesExamples - After nearly an hour we spot the yacht heaved-to, wallowing on the swell.
- Celestial navigation used a sextant built right into the cockpit but if the plane was wallowing at all, it was useless.
- Video showed the aircraft wallowing through the air at a very low speed - it must be remembered that the landing gear was down.
- It showed several people diving off a heavily-laden small boat that was wallowing dangerously in a heavy swell.
- The ship wallowed through waves up to 30 feet high in the treacherous Drake's Passage.
- However, don't think Queen Mary 2 is another clone for the lumbering, simpering, overblown jolly boats wallowing and waddling around the world's sunshine destinations.
- Tangled and corroded metal, red with age rather than by design protruded from the rock walls, and slick metal wallowed forlornly in the water, having finally succumbed to gravity's relentless pull.
- The yacht My Dolphin was dismasted and wallowing upon the waves.
- To see the stricken submarine Chicoutimi wallowing from side to side in the punishing waters of the cold Atlantic last week made for some exciting television.
- Not being a sailing vessel, our motor boat rolled and wallowed slowly with every wave.
Synonyms roll, lurch, toss (about), plunge, reel, sway, rock, flounder, keel, list labour, make heavy weather
2wallow in(of a person) indulge in an unrestrained way in (something that one finds pleasurable) I was wallowing in the luxury of the hotel he had been wallowing in self-pity Example sentencesExamples - The human female wallows in emotion; the male simply endures it.
- We are hedonists, living life for the sole purpose of wallowing in its myriad pleasures.
- If the TV moguls are right and we only want to watch miserable people wallowing in self-pity, then why not simply watch the news?
- He makes no apology for his crimes - in fact, he wallows in them.
- He was involved in his collection, sorting it, cataloguing it, wallowing in it, trying to store, organise and look after it.
- If he'd indulged and relished them and wallowed in them and had wilful malice in what he did… but he was always trying not to be as nasty as he could be.
- From a modest beginning she swiftly emerges as a spirited narrator wallowing in the delights of food and sex.
- When Ona B. bathes us in red in her installations and exuberantly wallows in bright colour, she self-ironically employs the tricks of the trade of the art market to make herself the object of inspection.
- A tragedy will still pack the seats of a theatre with those who enjoy wallowing in other people's misery.
- Which means I've got a little less than half and hour left to enjoy wallowing in it.
- Dull, dismal and discarded, he wallows in misery and loathing.
- Tonight the entertainment industry once again wallows in its own importance for the 72nd Annual Academy awards.
- She wallows in television, bonding with characters as if they're her friends, while ignoring the sensible advice from her real friends.
- I know he wallows in indulgent individualistic angst.
- It is a poorer person still, however, who wallows in ignorance.
- This, he reckons, is a bitter pill for Scots who quite enjoy wallowing in a perceived anti-Scottish backlash.
- You land up wallowing in self piety and gloat over the fact that you have been used and hurt.
- She didn't sound impressed - she seems to think that I am wallowing in denial.
- It torments me as I stroll the course, wallowing in spectacular failure.
- One professes to being nearly there, the other wallows in almost morose reflection that there is considerable effort required yet to haul him from his present fankle.
Synonyms luxuriate, bask, take pleasure, take satisfaction, indulge (oneself), delight, revel, glory give oneself up to, take to enjoy, like, love, relish, savour, rejoice in, exult in informal get a kick/buzz out of, get a kick/buzz from North American informal get a bang from, get a charge out of
noun ˈwɒləʊˈwɑloʊ 1An act of wallowing. Example sentencesExamples - I had plans to curl up in bed, ignore the world and wallow.
- But the music is often painfully beautiful, especially the love song Marie and the emotional wallow of Guilty, and Newman's craftsmanship is consistently staggering.
- I go screaming up again while the others wallow.
- Rory gets buckets of chocolate ice cream, wallows, let's her mom comfort her, cries.
- It's honestly not love, it's obsession and for her to want to hurt my so-called ‘friend’ whilst she lets Simon wallow is just heartless, especially when she was complaining of being hurt when he did it!
- While fans of courtroom drama and reality TV will undoubtedly eat this series up, I can't say that I especially enjoyed this wallow through the smarmy world of crime and punishment.
- But for now, while Brenda is prepared to grin and bare it, I am going to make like the proverbial pig and wallow.
- Don't miss out on this talk or you're likely to see your club wallow behind the success of others.
- It's interesting that Sharon thinks that the appropriate reaction is a lyric describing how it feels for us, something to give us all a bit of a wallow, rather than a call to arms.
- If I get thumbs down, I'll just wallow somewhere in a drink afterwards.
- If you don't know the music and you enjoy a good post-Romantic wallow, you have lots to choose from.
- It was then that Leo was first exposed to Austin's more severe insecure side as he witnessed his friend wallow and suffer for a year to get Juliet's attention.
- My nightly wallow has become such a ritual that I rarely miss it, regardless of where I am or at what time I get in - and if the water is anything less than piping hot, I'd rather go without.
- The animal-impulse of Miniature Golf rivalry can end in the victorious wallow of gratification or the blaze-of-glory, club-throwing tanty.
- Also, I found that I was doing more interesting things with my time and becoming more of the person that I wanted to be while I watched my old friend just sort of wallow.
- I was in a wallow of worry anyway, and I didn't want to talk.
- After watching Darrell Waltrip wallow miserably over the final years of his career, Wallace won't share that fate.
- The worst thing we can do is wallow around in self - pity.
- I would like to encourage you to take advantage of it, and to warn against impulses to hide, obscure, wallow, or control.
- Still, those who enjoy a good wallow might not mind as much.
2A depression containing mud or shallow water, formed by the wallowing of large mammals. Example sentencesExamples - He knew that despite Ivo's scrubbing he was still as foul as a pig in a wallow, and yet the knight slept in the same bed with him, and offered him closeness and comfort.
- The previous morning while we drove through a dust-ridden wallow, we had approached a Maasai Warrior walking barefoot through the grasslands.
- ‘Old Eph’ finally took a misstep in the night, and the jaws of the steel trap Clark had hidden in the bear's wallow bit into his right front paw.
- A nice section of low, wet wallows are the main attraction in the Giant's Windpipe, which was so much fun I almost wanted to do it twice.
- Old seal wallows, treacherously covered with floating vegetation, lay in wait for the unwary.
- We contemplated having to prusik back up the narrow pitch, should the wallows be impassable, and soon persuaded ourselves to leave it for another day.
- Beyond the horse paddock, a troop of capybaras, pig-size aquatic rodents, emerged from the tree line and settled serenely into a wallow.
- The goats forage, trample, and create wallows, scraping away surface material and accelerating soil erosion.
- Some of these seeds are blown in by prairie winds; others are carried there in the coats of the wallowing bison - perhaps picked up in another wallow.
- Only this way will you see if the seat gives you a numb bum in 30 minutes, whether is has enough oomph to do what you need, whether it rides like a dray or wallows like a pregnant porpoise.
- At the edge of the wallow, a young brown and white steer was standing knee deep in the muck, calling to his mother, and she was moaning back at him.
- We often observed confused babirusas searching for lost wallows and pangi trees, and each day saw babirusa skulls lying in the clear streams - remains of the logging team's meal the previous evening.
- Dog managed to get himself muddier than a hippo in its favourite wallow.
- They rode bikes up and down hills, they ran over fields, the kids jumping into mud wallows.
- Subdominant males form separate bachelor groups often in isolated ponds or wallows.
- They are great diggers of wallows and water-holes and they help other animals to access water.
Derivatives noun He is the most famously self-indulgent wallower in a contemporary neurosis: making a shrine of your imagined victimhood for others to bow down to. Example sentencesExamples - As a confirmed wallower in that scandal, I've always believed that Nixon either ordered the break-in or gave a non-specific order that that kind of thing be done.
- Sauropods were long believed to be semi-aquatic swamp wallowers, relying on the buoyancy of water to support their massive bodies.
- Liverpudlians are wallowers in self pity and they love nothing more than to hold a grudge.
- Egon looks and sounds like the classic blond beast, but is in fact a decent fellow, born long after the war, who is neither a Holocaust denier nor a wallower in guilt.
Origin Old English walwian 'to roll about', of Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin volvere 'to roll'. Rhymes Apollo, follow, hollow, Rollo, swallow Definition of wallow in US English: wallowverbˈwälōˈwɑloʊ [no object]1(chiefly of large mammals) roll about or lie relaxed in mud or water, especially to keep cool, avoid biting insects, or spread scent. watering places where buffalo liked to wallow Example sentencesExamples - A lot of people want to wallow like hippos at a waterhole when they go on holiday, and there's nothing wrong with that.
- There was the engine, sparkling clean and just waiting to purr like a kitten, but the rest of the boat looked like a greased pig had wallowed up and down the route to the engine compartment many times.
- The next morning I awoke to the bellows, grunts and snorts of a dozen huge elephant seals wallowing on the black beach below the sleeping dongas (cargo containers).
- Now all that's left are guns and herds of overweight buffalo wallowing across a subcontinent of syrup.
- When the giant waves struck the coast of Kenya, Owen was wallowing with his herd in the ocean near the mouth of the Sabaki River.
- Those who relish the contradiction of something so bad it's good, will wallow like pigs in clover.
- Cape buffalo prefer areas of open pasture, close to jungle and swampy ground where they can wallow.
Synonyms loll about, loll around, lie about, lie around, tumble about, tumble around, splash about, splash around - 1.1 (of a boat or aircraft) roll from side to side.
the small jet wallowed in the sky Example sentencesExamples - It showed several people diving off a heavily-laden small boat that was wallowing dangerously in a heavy swell.
- Not being a sailing vessel, our motor boat rolled and wallowed slowly with every wave.
- Video showed the aircraft wallowing through the air at a very low speed - it must be remembered that the landing gear was down.
- Celestial navigation used a sextant built right into the cockpit but if the plane was wallowing at all, it was useless.
- Tangled and corroded metal, red with age rather than by design protruded from the rock walls, and slick metal wallowed forlornly in the water, having finally succumbed to gravity's relentless pull.
- After nearly an hour we spot the yacht heaved-to, wallowing on the swell.
- However, don't think Queen Mary 2 is another clone for the lumbering, simpering, overblown jolly boats wallowing and waddling around the world's sunshine destinations.
- The ship wallowed through waves up to 30 feet high in the treacherous Drake's Passage.
- To see the stricken submarine Chicoutimi wallowing from side to side in the punishing waters of the cold Atlantic last week made for some exciting television.
- The yacht My Dolphin was dismasted and wallowing upon the waves.
Synonyms roll, lurch, toss, toss about, plunge, reel, sway, rock, flounder, keel, list
2wallow in(of a person) indulge in an unrestrained way in (something that creates a pleasurable sensation) I was wallowing in the luxury of the hotel he had been wallowing in self-pity Example sentencesExamples - If he'd indulged and relished them and wallowed in them and had wilful malice in what he did… but he was always trying not to be as nasty as he could be.
- He makes no apology for his crimes - in fact, he wallows in them.
- You land up wallowing in self piety and gloat over the fact that you have been used and hurt.
- The human female wallows in emotion; the male simply endures it.
- He was involved in his collection, sorting it, cataloguing it, wallowing in it, trying to store, organise and look after it.
- This, he reckons, is a bitter pill for Scots who quite enjoy wallowing in a perceived anti-Scottish backlash.
- She wallows in television, bonding with characters as if they're her friends, while ignoring the sensible advice from her real friends.
- Which means I've got a little less than half and hour left to enjoy wallowing in it.
- A tragedy will still pack the seats of a theatre with those who enjoy wallowing in other people's misery.
- From a modest beginning she swiftly emerges as a spirited narrator wallowing in the delights of food and sex.
- When Ona B. bathes us in red in her installations and exuberantly wallows in bright colour, she self-ironically employs the tricks of the trade of the art market to make herself the object of inspection.
- We are hedonists, living life for the sole purpose of wallowing in its myriad pleasures.
- It is a poorer person still, however, who wallows in ignorance.
- One professes to being nearly there, the other wallows in almost morose reflection that there is considerable effort required yet to haul him from his present fankle.
- If the TV moguls are right and we only want to watch miserable people wallowing in self-pity, then why not simply watch the news?
- I know he wallows in indulgent individualistic angst.
- Dull, dismal and discarded, he wallows in misery and loathing.
- It torments me as I stroll the course, wallowing in spectacular failure.
- Tonight the entertainment industry once again wallows in its own importance for the 72nd Annual Academy awards.
- She didn't sound impressed - she seems to think that I am wallowing in denial.
Synonyms luxuriate, bask, take pleasure, take satisfaction, indulge, indulge oneself, delight, revel, glory
nounˈwälōˈwɑloʊ 1An act of wallowing. Example sentencesExamples - The animal-impulse of Miniature Golf rivalry can end in the victorious wallow of gratification or the blaze-of-glory, club-throwing tanty.
- Still, those who enjoy a good wallow might not mind as much.
- Rory gets buckets of chocolate ice cream, wallows, let's her mom comfort her, cries.
- While fans of courtroom drama and reality TV will undoubtedly eat this series up, I can't say that I especially enjoyed this wallow through the smarmy world of crime and punishment.
- My nightly wallow has become such a ritual that I rarely miss it, regardless of where I am or at what time I get in - and if the water is anything less than piping hot, I'd rather go without.
- Also, I found that I was doing more interesting things with my time and becoming more of the person that I wanted to be while I watched my old friend just sort of wallow.
- The worst thing we can do is wallow around in self - pity.
- I was in a wallow of worry anyway, and I didn't want to talk.
- But the music is often painfully beautiful, especially the love song Marie and the emotional wallow of Guilty, and Newman's craftsmanship is consistently staggering.
- I would like to encourage you to take advantage of it, and to warn against impulses to hide, obscure, wallow, or control.
- If you don't know the music and you enjoy a good post-Romantic wallow, you have lots to choose from.
- It's interesting that Sharon thinks that the appropriate reaction is a lyric describing how it feels for us, something to give us all a bit of a wallow, rather than a call to arms.
- If I get thumbs down, I'll just wallow somewhere in a drink afterwards.
- It was then that Leo was first exposed to Austin's more severe insecure side as he witnessed his friend wallow and suffer for a year to get Juliet's attention.
- But for now, while Brenda is prepared to grin and bare it, I am going to make like the proverbial pig and wallow.
- I go screaming up again while the others wallow.
- After watching Darrell Waltrip wallow miserably over the final years of his career, Wallace won't share that fate.
- It's honestly not love, it's obsession and for her to want to hurt my so-called ‘friend’ whilst she lets Simon wallow is just heartless, especially when she was complaining of being hurt when he did it!
- I had plans to curl up in bed, ignore the world and wallow.
- Don't miss out on this talk or you're likely to see your club wallow behind the success of others.
2An area of mud or shallow water where mammals go to wallow, typically developing into a depression in the ground over long use. Example sentencesExamples - We contemplated having to prusik back up the narrow pitch, should the wallows be impassable, and soon persuaded ourselves to leave it for another day.
- Old seal wallows, treacherously covered with floating vegetation, lay in wait for the unwary.
- The goats forage, trample, and create wallows, scraping away surface material and accelerating soil erosion.
- ‘Old Eph’ finally took a misstep in the night, and the jaws of the steel trap Clark had hidden in the bear's wallow bit into his right front paw.
- At the edge of the wallow, a young brown and white steer was standing knee deep in the muck, calling to his mother, and she was moaning back at him.
- Only this way will you see if the seat gives you a numb bum in 30 minutes, whether is has enough oomph to do what you need, whether it rides like a dray or wallows like a pregnant porpoise.
- The previous morning while we drove through a dust-ridden wallow, we had approached a Maasai Warrior walking barefoot through the grasslands.
- Some of these seeds are blown in by prairie winds; others are carried there in the coats of the wallowing bison - perhaps picked up in another wallow.
- Beyond the horse paddock, a troop of capybaras, pig-size aquatic rodents, emerged from the tree line and settled serenely into a wallow.
- Dog managed to get himself muddier than a hippo in its favourite wallow.
- We often observed confused babirusas searching for lost wallows and pangi trees, and each day saw babirusa skulls lying in the clear streams - remains of the logging team's meal the previous evening.
- A nice section of low, wet wallows are the main attraction in the Giant's Windpipe, which was so much fun I almost wanted to do it twice.
- He knew that despite Ivo's scrubbing he was still as foul as a pig in a wallow, and yet the knight slept in the same bed with him, and offered him closeness and comfort.
- Subdominant males form separate bachelor groups often in isolated ponds or wallows.
- They are great diggers of wallows and water-holes and they help other animals to access water.
- They rode bikes up and down hills, they ran over fields, the kids jumping into mud wallows.
Origin Old English walwian ‘to roll about’, of Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin volvere ‘to roll’. |