Word Meanings - WALLOW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: WALLOW

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WALLOW)

• Flounder
• Roll
• blunder
• bungle
• boggle
• wallow
• tumble
• Grovel
• Crawl
• cringe
• creep
• grub
• fawn
• grabble
• Revel
• Carouse
• feast
• banquet
• luxuriate
• Revolve
• wheel
• rotate
• rock
• trundle wallow

Related words: (words related to WALLOW)

• BOGGLE
  1. To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision. We start and boggle at every unusual appearance. Glanvill. Boggling at nothing which serveth
• CREEP
  to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. 1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. Ye that walk The earth, and stately
• TUMBLERFUL
  As much as a tumbler will hold; enough to fill a tumbler.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• REVELLENT
  Causing revulsion; revulsive. -- n.
• TUMBLE-DOWN
  Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house.
• BUNGLER
  A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.
• CRAWL STROKE
  A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.
• BLUNDERHEAD
  A stupid, blundering fellow.
• BOGGLER
  One who boggles.
• WALLOW
  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
• REVEL
  See REVEAL
• GRABBLE
  Etym: 1. To grope; to feel with the hands. He puts his hands into his pockets, and keeps a grabbling and fumbling. Selden. 2. To lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl on the ground; to grovel. Ainsworth.
• BANQUETTE
  A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.
• BLUNDERER
  One who is apt to blunder.
• CREEPY
  Crawly; having or producing a sensation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin. One's whole blood grew curdling and creepy. R. Browning.
• FEAST
  festival, F. fête, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, 1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year
• FLOUNDER
  A flatfish of the family Pleuronectidæ, of many species. Note: The common English flounder is Pleuronectes flesus. There are several common American species used as food; as the smooth flounder ; the rough or winter flounder ; the summer flounder,
• CREEPLE
  1. A creeping creature; a reptile. There is one creeping beast, or long creeple (as the name is in Devonshire), that hath a rattle at his tail that doth discover his age. Morton . 2. One who is lame; a cripple. Thou knowest how lame a creeple
• WHEELBIRD
  The European goatsucker.
• CATHERINE WHEEL
  See WINDOW (more info) Alexandria, who is represented with a wheel, in allusion to her
• FOUR-WHEELER
  A vehicle having four wheels.
• PELTON WHEEL
  A form of impulse turbine or water wheel, consisting of a row of double cup-shaped buckets arranged round the rim of a wheel and actuated by one or more jets of water playing into the cups at high velocity.
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• SCRAWLER
  One who scrawls; a hasty, awkward writer.
• SWALLOW
  Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidæ, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. Note: