Definition of "wallow" in английский

verb

1. To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud.

   • Pigs wallow in the mud.

2. To move lazily or heavily in any medium.

3. (figurative) To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.

   • She wallowed in her misery.
   • With Smithers out of the picture I was free to wallow in my own crapulence.

4. To live or exist in filth or in a sickening manner.

noun

1. An instance of wallowing.

2. A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground.

3. A kind of rolling walk.

verb

1. (UK, dialectal, of plants) To fade, fade away, wither, droop; fail to flourish.

adjective

1. (now dialectal) Tasteless, flat.