wallow

wallow is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.
3. noun. To wither; to fade.
4. transitive verb. To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean.
5. noun. A kind of rolling walk.
6. noun. an indolent or clumsy rolling about

   "a good wallow in the water"

7. noun. a puddle where animals go to wallow
8. verb. delight greatly in

   "wallow in your success!"

9. verb. devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure

   "Wallow in luxury"

   "wallow in your sorrows"

10. verb. be ecstatic with joy

    Synonyms: rejoice, triumph

11. verb. roll around, "pigs were wallowing in the mud"

    Synonyms: welter

12. verb. rise up as if in waves

    "smoke billowed up into the sky"

    Synonyms: billow

Synonyms

rejoice, triumph, welter, billow

Common word forms

wallows, wallowed, wallower, wallowing

Words from these letters

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