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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

... Will they not seek the quadrature of the circle, even when on their wives? I hate that we should be enjoined to have our minds in the clouds, when our bodies are at table; I would not have the mind nailed there, nor wallow there; I would have it take place there and sit, but not lie down. Aristippus maintained nothing but the body, as if we had no soul; Zeno comprehended only the soul, as if we had no body: both of them faultily. Pythagoras, they say, followed a philosophy ...

— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne

... grouped on a rise of the ground. His indolence was plainly exposed to her criticism on a gentle green slope. Mrs. Fyne wondered at it; she was disgusted too. But having just then 'commenced author,' as you know, she could not tear herself away from the fascinating novelty. She let him wallow in his vice. I imagine Captain Anthony must have had a rather pleasant time in a quiet way. It was, I remember, a hot dry summer, favourable to contemplative life out of doors. And Mrs. Fyne was scandalized. Women don't ...

— Chance • Joseph Conrad

... fight when everything's right, And you're mad with the thrill and the glory; It's easy to cheer when victory's near, And wallow in fields that are gory. It's a different song when everything's wrong, When you're feeling infernally mortal; When it's ten against one, and hope there is none, Buck up, ...

— Rhymes of a Red Cross Man • Robert W. Service

... sight than a tiger in a cage, save it be a forest monkey climbing dispairingly up a barked stump, or an eagle chained to its roost? How can man be benefitted and made better by robbing the seal of its arctic ice, the hippopotamus of its soft wallow, the buffalo of its open range, the lion of its kingship, the ...

— Damn! - A Book of Calumny • Henry Louis Mencken

... that if she must needs come down to wallow in her native goodiness, it is due to let me board in Kensington till my ...

— More Bywords • Charlotte M. Yonge

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