WALLOW

wallow

Noun

  1. An instance of wallowing.
  2. A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow.
  3. A kind of rolling walk.

Verb

  1. To roll oneself about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.
    Pigs wallow in the mud.
  2. To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
    She wallowed in her misery.
  3. To roll; especially, to roll in anything defiling or unclean, as a hog might do to dust its body to relieve the distress of insect biting or cool its body with mud.
  4. To live in filth or gross vice; to behave in a beastly and unworthy manner.
  5. To wither; to fade.

Adjective

  1. Tasteless, flat.


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