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noun

Definition of wallownext
as in burrow
a sunken and often wet area like that used by animals to roll in The pig seemed happy to lie in its muddy wallow.

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verb

1
as in to revel
to completely give (oneself) over to something (such as an emotion) After being laid off, he spent much of his time wallowing in self-pity. They wallowed in all the indulgences provided by the resort.

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as in to shuffle
to roll around in an ungainly manner We saw a herd of cattle wallowing in the marsh.

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Recent Examples of wallow
Noun
Elk are fond of wallows in the heat of the summer, often frolicking in them late in the afternoon. — Jim Zumbo, Outdoor Life, 10 Sep. 2026
Verb
Other movies would have made a religious ideal of the suffering mother, attempted to proselytize its audiences, or wallowed in the melodramatic urge for a father figure. — Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 15 Sep. 2026 Rather than wallow, Voit maintained his energy, made multiple high-IQ plays that didn’t show up in the box score and finished his day with a hard single in his fifth at-bat. — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 14 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for wallow
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wallow
  1. burrow
  2. revel
  3. shuffle
  4. ditch
  5. indulge
  6. sway
  7. trough
  8. bask
Noun
  • This is usually when the males leave their burrows and search for its female counterpart.
    — Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2026
  • The venom takes effect within seconds, allowing the attacker to drag it to either its own burrow or the wasp’s.
    — Sean Donnelly, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of burrow
Verb
  • The video sweeps around a reveling fiefdom, showing everyone from peasants to dukes partying and getting it on.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Navarrete reveled with one woman over her husband’s release from a detention facility.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of revel
Verb
  • The video, made in collaboration with faceless director Lauzza, features buildings shuffling on beat and other excerpts of British culture.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Senate Leadership Fund, the main GOP Senate super PAC, also shuffled some of its reservations, removing $900,000 in broadcast buys in the state while adding $400,000 in digital ads.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of shuffle
Noun
  • Hundreds of British troops crisscrossed fields with thousands of metres of razor wire and dug a long ditch that was later partially filled with water to act as a moat to keep the Protestant marchers away from the Catholic enclave.
    — Amanda Ferguson Reuters, Arkansas Online, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Much of the stone used to construct Hadrian’s Wall and its forts and milecastles was recycled over the centuries, but the stone footings largely remain, as do the flanking ditches.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of ditch
Verb
  • Come with a small group, get your name on the list early, and get ready to indulge.
    — Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Sep. 2026
  • And of course there’s a bookstore in town for indulging your inner Rory.
    — Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of indulge
Verb
  • On a recent weekend in Lee's district about 50 days before the election, members from the Culinary Union, the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations knocked on voters' doors, hoping to sway those still undecided.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 Sep. 2026
  • In the southernmost car, dozens press together and sway in their prayer shawls to the hymns of the morning service.
    — Ben Corn, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of sway
Noun
  • This smear is described mathematically by a wave function which, like a classical wave, has peaks and troughs.
    — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Trotter’s team had prepped the property with water troughs and alfalfa hay, which drew in the animals.
    — Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of trough
Verb
  • This week, Tinashe navigates the highs and lows of being a pop star, Blondshell basks in the beauty of her life, and Taylor Swift is back for the curtain call with a deluxe offering from The Life of a Showgirl.
    — Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2026
  • In the days of former coach Billy Napier, Florida made a habit of basking in the wins.
    — Noah White, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2026
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“Wallow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wallow. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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