Synonyms of wallows

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noun

plural of wallow

as in ditches

a sunken and often wet area like that used by animals to roll in

The pig seemed happy to lie in its muddy wallow.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ditches
• burrows
• pockets
• troughs
• trenches
• furrows
• pits
• gutters
• potholes
• bowls
• wells
• caves
• valleys
• grooves
• water holes
• craters
• basins
• boreholes
• sinkholes
• caverns
• excavations
• sockets
• holes
• postholes
• nooks
• abysses
• chuckholes
• gouges
• recesses
• alcoves
• vacuums
• clefts
• impressions
• openings
• voids
• chasms
• notches
• dimples
• depressions
• niches
• imprints
• hollows
• cavities
• alveoli
• vacuities
• dents
• concavities
• indentations
• vacua
• dints
• gulfs
• indentures

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• hills
• rises
• mounds
• bumps
• swells
• humps
• tumors
• swellings
• lumps
• pimples
• bunches
• projections
• bulges
• protuberances
• protrusions
• juts
• cambers
• convexities

wallows

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verb

present tense third-person singular of wallow

1

as in revels

to completely give (oneself) over to something (such as an emotion)

After being laid off, he spent much of his time wallowing in self-pity.

They wallowed in all the indulgences provided by the resort.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• revels
• indulges
• basks
• luxuriates
• delights
• grovels
• abandons
• rolls
• relishes
• enjoys
• savors
• surrenders
• yields
• delivers
• gives up
• overdoes
• overindulges

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• eschews
• forgoes
• foregoes
• inhibits
• restrains
• refrains (from)
• denies
• checks
• abstains (from)
• forbears

2

as in shuffles

to roll around in an ungainly manner

We saw a herd of cattle wallowing in the marsh.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• shuffles
• sways
• struggles
• lurches
• staggers
• limps
• falters
• shambles
• welters
• lumbers
• totters
• stumbles
• reels
• teeters
• muddles
• trudges
• fumbles
• plods
• blunders
• bumbles
• flogs

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• glides
• flies
• sails
• zooms
• zips
• coasts
• kilts