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wallow is a verb and noun meaning "devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure". It carries 7 recorded senses.
devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure
“Wallow in luxury”
“wallow in your sorrows”
rise up as if in waves
“smoke billowed up into the sky”
a puddle where animals go to wallow
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wallow come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.