Definitions for welter

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welter wel·ter

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IPA: /ˈwɛl tər/

Welter is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in welter (eelrtw).

Definitions for welter

noun

1. a confused mass; a jumble or muddle:
2. a state of commotion, turmoil, or upheaval:
3. a rolling, tossing, or tumbling about, as or as if by the sea, waves, or wind:
4. Informal. a welterweight boxer or wrestler.

adjective

1. (of a steeplechase or hurdle race) pertaining to, or noting a race in which the horses bear welterweights.

verb (used without object)

1. to roll, toss, or heave, as waves or the sea.
2. to roll, writhe, or tumble about; wallow, as animals (often followed by about):
3. to lie bathed in or be drenched in something, especially blood.
4. to become deeply or extensively involved, associated, entangled, etc.:

Origin of welter

1250-1300; Middle English, frequentative (see -er⁶) of welten to roll, Old English weltan; cognate with Middle Dutch welteren, Low German weltern to roll

Examples for welter

welter, when he saw that his wife was not killed, was furious.

Here her speech was lost while she delved head first into the welter.

A welter of indecipherable radio and communication-screen signals.

Jon Venex plunged through the window in a welter of flying glass.

When we welter in pleasures and idleness, then we eat and drink with drunkards.

There no longer is anywhere to hide from the swelter and welter of the American id.

He could see nothing but vanity back of him and a welter of cost ahead.

Beardsley stood numbly for a moment, struggling against a welter of panic.

It was the word of promise that upheld them, as they drifted in this welter of waters.

Of the only effective truth in the welter of silly lies that deceived you so easily?