wallows
Indulges in misery
Wallows is the third-person singular form of wallow.
To wallow is to roll around in something—pigs wallow in mud, dogs wallow in grass.
Figuratively, to wallow is to indulge in a feeling or state, usually negative: She wallows in self-pity.
As a noun, a wallow is a muddy place where animals roll: The elephants gathered at the wallow.
Domesticated swine for meat
buffalo · hippo · elephant · boar · rhino · cooling · coating · insects
Exaggerated focus on own suffering
- miseryIntense prolonged distress
- despairTotal absence of hope
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
melancholy · brooding · indulgence · dwelling · moping · sulking · depression · gloom
pig
Domesticated swine for meat
sty · buffalo · hippo · elephant · boar · rhino · cooling · coating · insects · parasites
self-pity
Exaggerated focus on own suffering
sorrow · melancholy · brooding · indulgence · dwelling · moping · sulking · depression · gloom · languishing
indulgence
Yielding to desire
opulence · pleasure · hedonism · decadence · abundance · immersion · lavish · splurge · pampering · extravagance
rolling
Turning over repeatedly
- flounderingStruggling clumsily, failing
- tumblingAcrobatic rolling and flipping
- thrashingDecisive, lopsided defeat
lurching · pitching · heaving · tossing · struggling · swaying · rocking · listing · laboring · plowing
- huntingdeer hunting, hunting rifle, hunters, tracking, hunting license
- animal trackingtracks, footprints, hoofprints, spoor, droppings
- hippo habitathippos, mud, water, riverbanks, shallows
- wildlife landswildlife refuges, game reserves, hunting grounds, wildlife corridors, deer habitat
wallowsrises above
Exceeds or overcomes
overcomes · transcends · moves on · lets go · recovers
wallowsstrives
Makes earnest effort
perseveres · pushes forward · struggles · fights · endeavors
- mud wallowAnimal cooling pool
- hog wallowMuddy depression pigs use
- wallow in the mireStay immersed in squalor
wallow, wallowing, wallowed, wallower, wallowers, wallowings