wal·low /ˈwɑ(ˌ)lo/
(vi.)打滾,沈迷,顛簸打滾,泥坑,墮落
Wal·low v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wallowed p. pr. & vb. n. Wallowing.]
1. To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.
I may wallow in the lily beds. --Shak.
2. 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.
3. To wither; to fade. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Wal·low, v. t. To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean. “Wallow thyself in ashes.”
Wal·low, n. A kind of rolling walk.
One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow. --Dryden.
2. Act of wallowing.
3. A place to which an animal comes to wallow; also, the depression in the ground made by its wallowing; as, a buffalo wallow.
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wallow
n 1: a puddle where animals go to wallow
2: an indolent or clumsy rolling about; "a good wallow in the
water"
v 1: devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an
immoderate degree, usually with pleasure; "Wallow in
luxury"; "wallow in your sorrows"
2: roll around, "pigs were wallowing in the mud" [syn: welter]
3: rise up as if in waves; "smoke billowed up nto the sky"
[syn: billow]
4: be ecstatic with joy [syn: rejoice, triumph]
5: delight greatly in; "wallow in your success!"