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Synonyms for wallowing

Grammar : Verb
Spell : wol-oh
Phonetic Transcription : ˈwɒl oʊ

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Définition of wallowing

Origin :
  • Old English wealwian "to roll," from West Germanic *walwojan, from PIE *wel- "to roll" (see volvox). Figurative sense of "to plunge and remain in some state or condition" is attested from early 13c. Related: Wallowed; wallowing. The noun is recorded from 1590s.
  • verb slosh around in
  • verb become very involved in
Example sentences :
  • We are, on the contrary, fumbling and wallowing about where the Greek pondered and philosophized.
  • Extract from : « 'Tis Sixty Years Since » by Charles Francis Adams
  • He stamped them into the snow under him in the wallowing struggle.
  • Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
  • A sea hog is a wallowing boat with a long, black, heavy snout.
  • Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
  • The brute was wallowing on the surface now, the water boiling around him.
  • Extract from : « The Great Hunger » by Johan Bojer
  • You can fancy how dirty we became, splashing, stumbling, wallowing in it.
  • Extract from : « South American Fights and Fighters » by Cyrus Townsend Brady
  • And now the rock had melted away and left him wallowing in a deep pool.
  • Extract from : « The Girl on the Boat » by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
  • The flower of the Roman patriciate was wallowing in this monstrous treachery.
  • Extract from : « "Unto Caesar" » by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
  • It was a period of wallowing for everything on four feet or on two.
  • Extract from : « Roosevelt in the Bad Lands » by H. Hagedorn.
  • Their elders were hidden from the wallowing hippopotami by the crest of the knoll.
  • Extract from : « Tales of Space and Time » by Herbert George Wells
  • I stared at it, and began to gulp tragically, wallowing in a wave of self-pity.
  • Extract from : « The Prairie Mother » by Arthur Stringer

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