Wallow vs Ravage - What's the difference?
wallow | ravage |
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.
To devastate or destroy something.
To pillage or sack something, to lay waste to something.
To wreak destruction.
Grievous damage or havoc.
* Addison
Depredation or devastation
As verbs the difference between wallow and ravage
is that 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 while ravage is .As a noun wallow
is an instance of wallowing.As an adjective wallow
is tasteless, flat.wallow
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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.
Usage notes
In the sense of “to immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with”, it is almost exclusively used for self-indulgent negative emotions, particularly self-pity. See synonyms for general or positive alternatives, such as (revel).Synonyms
* (to immerse oneself in) bask, delight, indulge, luxuriate, revel, rollickNoun
(en noun)Etymology 2
(From inflected forms of) (etyl) . Compare (waugh).ravage
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Verb
Noun
(en noun)- Would one think 'twere possible for love / To make such ravage in a noble soul?
- the ravage''' of a lion; the '''ravages''' of fire or tempest; the '''ravages of an army, or of time