Dictionary Entry
welter
welter is a 6-letter English word with 10 senses as intransitive verb, adjective, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To roll, as the body of an animal; to tumble about, especially in anything foul or defiling; to wallow. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 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 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To roll, as the body of an animal; to tumble about, especially in anything foul or defiling; to wallow.
- 2intransitive verb
To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows.
- 3intransitive verb
To wither; to wilt.
- 4adjective
Of, pertaining to, or designating, the most heavily weighted race in a meeting; as, a welter race; the welter stakes.
- 5noun
That in which any person or thing welters, or wallows; filth; mire; slough.
- 6noun
A rising or falling, as of waves; as, the welter of the billows; the welter of a tempest.
- 7noun
a confused multitude of things
- 8verb
be immersed in
"welter in work"
- 9verb
roll around, "pigs were wallowing in the mud"
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- 10verb
toss, roll, or rise and fall in an uncontrolled way
"The shipwrecked survivors weltered in the sea for hours"
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