Wallow vs Wall - What's the difference?
wallow | wall |
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.
A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
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A point of defeat or extinction.
An impediment to free movement.
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A type of butterfly (Lasiommata megera ).
A barrier.
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A barrier to vision.
Something with the apparent solidity and dimensions of a building wall.
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A divisive or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
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(lb) A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction. Also called a chandelier.
(lb) A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
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To enclose with a wall
To enclose by surrounding with walls.
To separate with a wall
To seal with a wall
As a verb 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.As a proper noun wall is
or wall can be (astronomy) a chinese constellation located near pegasus and andromeda, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the larger black turtle.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.
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).wall
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}
citation, passage=Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall . Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.}}
Blackburn 2-0 West Brom, passage=Blackburn were the recipients of another dose of fortune when from another Thomas pass Odemwingie was brought down by Jones inside the penalty area, but referee Mark Clattenburg awarded a free-kick which Chris Brunt slammed into the wall .}}
Synonyms
* (fictional bidder at an auction) chandelierVerb
(en verb)- He walled the study with books.
- They had walled in the garden
- The previous owners had walled off two rooms, making an apartment.
- They walled up the basement space that had been used as a coal bin.