wallow

/ˈwɒ.ləʊ/

noun

  1. 1

    An instance of wallowing.

  2. 2

    A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground.

  3. 3

    A kind of rolling walk.

verb

  1. 1

    To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud.

    Pigs wallow in the mud.
  2. 2

    To move lazily or heavily in any medium.

  3. 3

    To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.

    She wallowed in her misery.
  4. 4

    To live or exist in filth or in a sickening manner.

  5. 5

    To wither; to fade.

adjective

  1. 1

    Tasteless, flat.

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