Synonyms of wallows

wallows 1 of 2

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

Noun

In states where bow seasons start in August and early September, hunting near wallows is often the only effective technique if bulls aren’t responding to calls. — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 12 Aug. 2026

Verb

Other wildlife experts support Geist’s contention that wallows are used primarily by mature bulls, and some scientists feel that the wallow is a mark of advertisement or a dominance display. — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 12 Aug. 2026

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