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wallow
noun
verb
adjective
An instance of wallowing.
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/ˈwɒ.ləʊ/ /ˈwɒ.ləʊ/
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noun
An instance of wallowing.
A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground.
A kind of rolling walk.
verb
To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud.
“Pigs wallow in the mud.”
To move lazily or heavily in any medium.
To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
“She wallowed in her misery.”
To live or exist in filth or in a sickening manner.
To wither; to fade.
adjective
Tasteless, flat.
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Pigs wallow in the mud.
She wallowed in her misery.
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