Definitions for wallow

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wallow wal·low

Spelling: [wol-oh]

IPA: /ˈwɒl oʊ/

Wallow is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in wallow (alloww).

Definitions for wallow

verb (used without object)

1. to roll about or lie in water, snow, mud, dust, or the like, as for refreshment:
2. to live self-indulgently; luxuriate; revel:
3. to flounder about; move along or proceed clumsily or with difficulty:
4. to surge up or billow forth, as smoke or heat:

noun

1. an act or instance of wallowing.
2. a place in which animals wallow:
3. the indentation produced by animals wallowing:

Origin of wallow

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

Examples for wallow

In our film, Emad is using a language that does not wallow in suffering and in that way he becomes a powerful inspiration.

It irks them that humanity should wallow in its ignorance and blindness.

He grabbed the groveling butcher and hoisted him from his wallow.

But Romney strikes me as a glass-half-full kind of guy, so let us not wallow in the negatives.

The wallow is the best known, but not the only, fire now racing through Arizona.

Amia, Louie's temporary girlfriend, is gone, leaving him to wallow in his heartbreak—at least for a few scenes.

I know many people who think to be an artist means you have to suffer, or at least wallow in old miseries.

And then they laid him down in the rain-water which had gathered in the wallow.

To wallow in such a wave of happiness had never been his before, was never to be his again.

She had to wallow in filth instead of having flowers all about her.