Meaning & use
Wallow
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To roll about or lie relaxed in mud, water, or sand for pleasure or relief, or to indulge excessively in a feeling or situation.
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The pigs wallowed happily in the cool mud on a hot afternoon.
After the breakup, he spent weeks wallowing in self-pity.
A note on using this word
The figurative sense of "wallowing" in an emotion, especially self-pity, has become at least as common in modern English as the literal sense of animals rolling in mud.
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Another way to use it
2. noun
A muddy or wet hollow used by animals to wallow in.
The elephants gathered around the wallow to cool off.
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