Wallow

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Verb 1.1.1 Translations 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Translations

English

Verb

Infinitive to wallow

Third person singular wallows

Simple past wallowed

Past participle wallowed

Present participle wallowing

1. (intransitive) To roll one's self 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.

   With Smithers out of the picture I was free to wallow in my own crapulence.

2. (intransitive) To roll; especially, to roll in anything defiling or unclean.
3. (intransitive) To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.
4. (intransitive) To wither; to fade.

Translations

• German: sich wälzen (1,2), suhlen (1,2,3), schwelgen (1) (to wallow in vice) dem Laster frönen; (to wallow in money) im Geld schwimmen; (to wallow in pleasure) im Vergnügen schwelgen

Noun

Singular wallow

Plural wallows

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

Translations

• German: Bad n (1,2), Suhle f (2)

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