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

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

Synonyms for wallowing

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