wallow
wallow is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner. God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity. South.
- 2.To wither; to fade. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
- 3.To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean. "Wallow thyself in ashes." Jer. vi.
- 4.A kind of rolling walk. One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow. Dryden.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- adown
- agreeable
- and
- animal
- arm
- armlet
- artesian
- basement
- bask
- bay
- bayou
- bed
- below
- belt
- beneath
- bight
- bilge
- bodily
- bonne
- bouche
- broad
- cellar
- clover
- comfort
- comfortable
- concave
- continental
- cosy
- cove
- covered
- creature
- creek
- crouch
- crouched
- cup
- dainty
- dam
- dead
- debased
- debasement
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is wallow.
- What is to live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner. God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity. South called?
- What is to wither; to fade. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] called?
- What is to roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean. "Wallow thyself in ashes." Jer. vi called?
- What is a kind of rolling walk. One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow. Dryden called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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