Synonyms of wallows

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noun

plural of wallow

as in ditches

a sunken and often wet area like that used by animals to roll in

The pig seemed happy to lie in its muddy wallow.

Related Words

• ditches
• burrows
• pockets
• troughs
• trenches
• furrows
• pits
• gutters
• potholes
• bowls
• wells
• caves
• valleys
• grooves
• water holes
• craters
• basins
• boreholes
• sinkholes
• caverns
• excavations
• holes
• sockets
• postholes
• nooks
• abysses
• chuckholes
• gouges
• recesses
• alcoves
• vacuums
• clefts
• impressions
• openings
• voids
• chasms
• notches
• dimples
• depressions
• niches
• imprints
• cavities
• hollows
• alveoli
• vacuities
• dents
• concavities
• indentations
• dints
• gulfs
• indentures

Dissimilar Words

• hills
• rises
• mounds
• bumps
• swells
• humps
• tumors
• swellings
• lumps
• pimples
• bunches
• projections
• bulges
• protuberances
• protrusions
• juts
• cambers
• convexities

wallows

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verb

present tense third-person singular of wallow

1

as in revels

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.

Related Words

• revels
• indulges
• basks
• luxuriates
• delights
• grovels
• abandons
• rolls
• relishes
• enjoys
• savors
• surrenders
• yields
• delivers
• gives up
• overdoes
• overindulges

Dissimilar Words

• eschews
• forgoes
• inhibits
• restrains
• refrains (from)
• denies
• checks
• abstains (from)
• forbears

2

as in shuffles

to roll around in an ungainly manner

We saw a herd of cattle wallowing in the marsh.

Related Words

• shuffles
• sways
• struggles
• lurches
• staggers
• limps
• falters
• shambles
• welters
• lumbers
• totters
• stumbles
• reels
• teeters
• muddles
• trudges
• fumbles
• plods
• blunders
• bumbles
• flogs

Dissimilar Words

• glides
• flies
• sails
• zooms
• zips
• coasts
• kilts

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of wallows

Verb

Gaudette used a series of AI tools — and not a single actor, producer or crew member — to tell his tender story of a man who, for all his travails, hardly wallows in his station. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2026

But in sharp contrast to the scarcity of Prohibition, the beverage menu wallows in the excess of the 1920s. — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 10 Feb. 2026

The content is familiar—again the narrator faces death, wallows in self-destruction, waves away redemption—but now the moment is situated within an entirely different sonic landscape, one that is sparkling and sunny. — Literary Hub, 14 Jan. 2026