Bask vs Wallow - What's the difference?
bask | wallow | Synonyms |
To bathe in warmth; to be exposed to pleasant heat.
* Goldsmith
(figurative) To take great pleasure or satisfaction; to feel warmth or happiness. (This verb is usually followed by "in").
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To roll oneself 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.
* Shakespeare
To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
* The Simpsons (TV series)
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.
To live in filth or gross vice; to behave in a beastly and unworthy manner.
* South
(intransitive, UK, Scotland, dialect) To wither; to fade.
An instance of wallowing.
A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow.
A kind of rolling walk.
Wallow is a synonym of bask.
As verbs the difference between bask and wallow
is that bask is to bathe in warmth; to be exposed to pleasant heat while wallow is to roll oneself 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.As a noun wallow is
an instance of wallowing.As an adjective wallow is
tasteless, flat.bask
English
Verb
(en verb)- to bask in the sun
- basks in the glare, and stems the tepid wave.
- I basked in her love.
- to bask in someone's favour
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wallow
English
Alternative forms
* waller (eye dialect)Etymology 1
(etyl) wealwian, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Pigs wallow in the mud.
- I may wallow in the lily beds.
- She wallowed in her misery.
- With Smithers out of the picture I was free to wallow in my own crapulence.
- God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity.