Usually means: Indulge in emotion excessively; linger.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. wallow: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wallow: Merriam-Webster
  3. wallow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wallow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wallow: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wallow: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wallow, wallow: Wordnik
  8. wallow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. wallow: Wiktionary
  10. wallow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wallow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. wallow: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. wallow: Dictionary.com
  14. wallow: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. wallow: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Wallow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wallow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. wallow: Rhymezone
  19. wallow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. wallow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. wallow: FreeDictionary.org
  22. wallow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. wallow: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. wallow: Legal dictionary

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  1. wallow: Encyclopedia

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  1. wallow: Medical dictionary

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  1. wallow: Idioms

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  1. wallow: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud.
verb:  To move lazily or heavily in any medium.
verb:  (figurative) To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
verb:  To live or exist in filth or in a sickening manner.
noun:  An instance of wallowing.
noun:  A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground.
noun:  A kind of rolling walk.
verb:  (UK, dialectal, of plants) To fade, fade away, wither, droop; fail to flourish.
adjective:  (now dialectal) Tasteless, flat.

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