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Wallow

noun

A puddle where animals go to wallow.

An indolent or clumsy rolling about.

verb

(past & past part. wallowed; pres. part. wallowing)

Devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure. "Wallow in your sorrows"

Roll around,. Synonym: welter.

Rise up as if in waves. Synonym: billow.

Be ecstatic with joy. Synonyms: rejoice, triumph.

Delight greatly in.

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"Wallow" Quotes from Famous Books

... into the river and was very shortly across safely on the other side, the hideous reptiles taking no more notice of him than if he had been one of themselves, continuing to wallow about in the ...

— The Penang Pirate - and, The Lost Pinnace • John Conroy Hutcheson

... the town would be awakened by the siren whistle of the little hemp-boat from Cebu. This whistle was the signal for the small boys to extract the reluctant carabao from the cool, sticky wallow, and yoke him to the creaking bamboo cart. Then from the storehouses the fragrant picos of hemp would be piled on, and the longsuffering beast of burden, aided and abetted by a rope run through his nose, would haul the load down to the beach. While naked laborers ...

— The Great White Tribe in Filipinia • Paul T. Gilbert

... ever at war, one pulling heavenward, the other, earthward. Nor do they ever become reconciled. Either may conquer, but the vanquished never submits. The higher nature may be compelled to grovel, to wallow in the mire of sensual indulgence, but it always rebels and enters its protest. It can never forget that it bears the image of its Maker, even when dragged through the slough of sensualism. The still small voice which bids man look up is never quite hushed. If the victim of the ...

— Architects of Fate - or, Steps to Success and Power • Orison Swett Marden

... sheep-breeding should be limited in Basutoland as there is not enough grazing for the flocks. And under this economic stress these surplus wives are sometimes driven to accept the overtures of unscrupulous men who gradually induce them to wallow in sin; hence too, they give birth to an inferior type ...

— Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since • Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje

... Moo-jee in shallow water on the edge of an area of denuded coral reef fully two miles long by a mile broad. For three hours a considerable portion of the reef had been exposed to the glare of the sun, and the incoming tide filched heat, stored by solar rays, from coral and stones and sand. The first wallow provoked an exclamation of amazement, for the water was several degrees hotter than the air, and it was the hottest hour (3 p.m.) of an extremely hot day. No thermometer was at hand to register the actual temperature of the water, but subsequent tests at the same spot under ...

— My Tropic Isle • E J Banfield

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