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Wallowed vs Allowed - What's the difference?

wallowed | allowed |

As verbs the difference between wallowed and allowed

is that wallowed is (wallow) while allowed is (allow).

wallowed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (wallow)

  • wallow

    English

    Alternative forms

    * waller (eye dialect)

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) wealwian, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.
  • Pigs wallow in the mud.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I may wallow in the lily beds.
  • To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
  • She wallowed in her misery.
  • * The Simpsons (TV series)
  • With Smithers out of the picture I was free to wallow in my own crapulence.
  • 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
  • God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity.
  • (intransitive, UK, Scotland, dialect) To wither; to fade.
  • 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, rollick

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of wallowing.
  • A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow.
  • A kind of rolling walk.
  • Etymology 2

    (From inflected forms of) (etyl) . Compare (waugh).

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tasteless, flat.
  • allowed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (allow)
  • Antonyms

    * forbidden * prohibited

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