MEANING
1. To roll or lie in mud, water, or a similar surrounding substance.
2. To dwell excessively or pleasurably in a mood or experience.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- wallow in mud
- wallowing animal
On the page
Buffalo wallowed in the muddy pool.
Word forms
- Base
- wallow
- Past tense
- wallowed
- Past participle
- wallowed
- Present participle
- wallowing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- wallow
- Present continuous
- am/is/are wallowing
- Present perfect
- have/has wallowed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been wallowing
- Past
- wallowed
- Past continuous
- was/were wallowing
- Past perfect
- had wallowed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been wallowing
- Future
- will wallow
- Future continuous
- will be wallowing
- Future perfect
- will have wallowed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been wallowing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: wallow; wallows; wallowed; wallowed; wallowing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: wallows.
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