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Antonyms for wallowing
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : wol-oh |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈwɒl oʊ |
Definition 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
- 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
Synonyms for wallowing
- bask
- bathe in
- be immersed
- blunder
- delight
- enjoy
- flounder
- get stuck
- glory
- grovel
- humor
- immerse
- indulge oneself
- lie
- loll
- lurch
- luxuriate
- move around in
- pamper
- reel
- relish
- revel
- roll
- roll about
- roll around in
- rollick
- splash around
- spoil
- sprawl
- stagger
- stumble
- sway
- take pleasure
- toss
- totter
- tumble
- wade
- welter
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