wallow

  1. Verb.  (intransitive) 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.
  2. Verb.  (intransitive) To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
  3. Verb.  (intransitive) To roll; especially, to roll in anything defiling or unclean, as a hog might do to dust its body to relieve the distress of insect biting or cool its body with mud.
  4. Verb.  (intransitive) To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.
  5. Verb.  (intransitive) To wither; to fade.
  6. Noun.  An instance of wallowing.
  7. Noun.  A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow.
  8. Noun.  A kind of rolling walk.
  9. Adjective.  (context, now) Tasteless, flat.

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