Definition of "wallow" []

• To roll the body about indolently or clumsily in or as if in water, snow, or mud. (verb-intransitive)
• To luxuriate; revel: wallow in self-righteousness. (verb-intransitive)
• To be plentifully supplied: wallowing in money. (verb-intransitive)
• To move with difficulty in a clumsy or rolling manner; flounder: "The car wallowed back through the slush, with ribbons of bright water trickling down the windshield from the roof” ( Anne Tyler). (verb-intransitive)
• To swell or surge forth; billow. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I think a wallow is good for the soul on occasion."
• "Later on, he was wont to say that this poverty had been the best possible thing for him, its enforced abstinences having come just at the time when he had begun to "wallow" -- his word for any sort of excess; and "wallowing" was undoubtedly a peril to which Norbert's temper particularly exposed him."
• "If you’ve ever heard Bill Maher speak on the subject of religion, you know my views. hopefully you agree with him. but you can always help yourself. just dont lay there in wallow in your pity and the need for sympathy from others."