to wallow in
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7.4
- phrasal verb
- /ˈwɑloʊ ɪn/
:
entregarse a
- I am not wallowing in self-pity.
You can't do anything other than wallow in retrospective assessment.
- You can't do anything other than wallow in retrospective assessment.
- now if you wallow in your own self love
- He said wallow in it, wallow in your pain, wallow in the disappointment.
- So allowing yourself to wallow in disappointment doesn't make any sense.
- And that is what has gotten me through and that is why I don't wallow in yesterday.
- He's eating one bite of bread and one sip of wine each day to kind of get him through, and he's just like wallowing in sadness and boredom and like staring at the walls.
- It could have demotivated you because then you wallow in the racism of the world, or it could motivate you to succeed.
- He also left when I was very young, and since my father was a poet, my mother a teacher, we didn't exactly wallow in money.
- I'm adding now, but don't wallow in the insecurity of needing them to want it the same way you do.
- Then you made the decision to fuck her and that led to some babies and that led to her leaving you and that led to you now wallowing in your victimhood.
Examples
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You can still wallow in your misery.
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He couldn't help but wallow in his memories of happier days.
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Like I can just sit here and wallow in the fact that I tried.
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So I was just wallowing in self doubt because I thought, boy, have I really screwed up.
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I found myself wallowing in memories of the distant past.
Fiction book (2002) -
But while he initially took the decision badly, he didn't wallow in it for long.
Academic text (2005) -
To reason that way seemed more practical to him and more dignified than to wallow in regret.
Fiction book (1999) -
For the love of Gideon, stop wallowing in self-pity.
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Until you identify it, you can't do anything but wallow in self-pity.
Fiction book (1994) -
It was a ghost town before I left, and I didn't want to sit around wallowing in self-pity.
Synonyms
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4.7
To think about something for a long time, usually with worry or sadness
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5.2
To think or talk a lot about something upsetting
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5.8
To spend time enjoying a feeling or situation without trying to change it
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9.9
To stay sad and think about problems instead of trying to fix them
To feel sorry for yourself and complain to get sympathy
Antonyms
How Indulgent
Surface Forms
Morphology
The verb 'wallow' already carries the sense of indulging or dwelling in an emotion, and the preposition 'in' clearly marks the domain of that indulgence (e.g. 'self-pity'). The meaning of 'wallow in' is therefore directly compositional and predictable from its parts, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the phrasal meaning.
Etymology
The phrase wallow in comes from animals like pigs that wallow by lying and rolling in mud or water and staying in it because it feels comfortable. That's why wallow in now means 'to indulge' in a feeling or situation, often in a sad or unhelpful way.