wallowing

• abandoning
• bask
• basking
• bathe in
• be immersed
• blunder
• blundering
• bumbling
• delight
• delighting
• delivering
• enjoy
• enjoying
• faltering
• flogging
• flounder
• fumbling
• get stuck
• giving up
• glory
• grovel
• groveling
• grovelling
• humor
• immerse
• indulge oneself
• indulging
• lie
• limping
• loll
• lumbering
• lurch
• lurching
• luxuriate
• luxuriating
• move around in
• muddling
• overdoing
• overindulging
• pamper
• plodding
• reel
• reeling
• relish
• relishing
• revel
• reveling
• revelling
• roll
• roll about
• roll around in
• rollick
• rolling
• savoring
• savouring
• shambling
• shuffling
• splash around
• spoil
• sprawl
• stagger
• staggering
• struggling
• stumble
• stumbling
• surrendering
• sway
• swaying
• take pleasure
• teetering
• toss
• totter
• tottering
• trudging
• tumble
• wade
• welter
• weltering
• yielding

• checking
• coasting
• denying
• dislike
• eschewing
• flying
• forbearing
• foregoing
• forgoing
• gliding
• hate
• ignore
• inhibiting
• kilting
• neglect
• restraining
• sailing
• steady
• straighten
• zipping
• zooming

• verb
  1. To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud.
  2. To move lazily or heavily in any medium.
  3. To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
  4. To live or exist in filth or in a sickening manner.
  5. To wither; to fade.
• noun
  1. The act of one who wallows.

• After the breakup, she spent days wallowing in her sorrow.
• The pigs were wallowing in the mud, enjoying the coolness on a hot day.
• Instead of wallowing in self-pity, he decided to take action and improve his situation.
• She was accused of wallowing in her achievements and not striving for new goals.
• The movie depicted a character wallowing in guilt over his past mistakes.

abandoning

• abandonment
• abjuring
• abolishing
• abolition
• aborting
• abrogating
• abrogation
• annulling
• annulment
• basking
• breaking off
• breaking up
• calling
• calling off
• canceling
• cancelling
• ceasing
• closing
• concluding
• countermanding
• crying off
• cutting off
• deletion
• delivering
• deserting
• discarding
• discontinuing
• disowning
• disregarding
• dissolution
• dissolving
• distancing
• ditching
• dropping
• dumping
• elimination
• ending
• escaping
• expiring
• finishing
• flinging
• forgetting
• forsaking
• giving up
• halting
• handing over
• hanging it up
• holding back
• ignoring
• indulging
• interrupting
• invalidating
• invalidation
• jettisoning
• junking
• knocking off
• leaving
• leaving off
• luxuriating
• marooning
• neglecting
• nullification
• nullifying
• overdoing
• overindulging
• overruling
• pausing
• quashing
• quitting
• recall
• recalling
• recanting
• rejecting
• relinquishing
• renouncing
• repeal
• repealing
• repudiating
• repudiation
• rescinding
• retirement
• retracting
• retraction
• reveling
• revelling
• reversal
• reversing
• revocation
• revoking
• rolling
• rolling back
• sacrificing
• scrapping
• scrubbing
• shedding
• shutting off
• stopping
• stranding
• surrendering
• suspending
• taking back
• tapering off
• terminating
• throwing away
• throwing out
• throwing up
• undoing
• vacating
• voiding
• walking away from
• walking out on
• wallowing
• winding up
• withdrawing
• wrapping up
• writing off
• yielding

abiding

• absorbing
• accepting
• acquiescing
• ageless
• allowing
• awaiting
• bearing
• biding
• brooking
• capitulating
• carrying through
• ceaseless
• changeless
• cohabiting
• constant
• continuing
• countenancing
• dallying
• dateless
• dawdling
• dwelling
• endless
• enduring
• eternal
• everlasting
• fast
• frequenting
• going
• hacking
• handling
• hanging around
• hanging on
• haunting
• holding on
• holding up
• immortal
• imperishable
• indissoluble
• inhabiting
• keeping up
• lasting
• leasing
• lingering
• living
• living with
• lodging
• loitering
• meeting
• occupying
• ongoing
• outstaying
• overstaying
• peopling
• perduring
• perennial
• permanent
• permitting
• perpetual
• persistent
• persisting
• pocketing
• populating
• prevailing
• remaining
• renting
• residing
• respecting
• running on
• settling
• stable
• standing
• standing for
• stationary
• staying
• steadfast
• steady
• sticking around
• sticking out
• stomaching
• subletting
• suffering
• supporting
• surviving
• sustaining
• swallowing
• sweating out
• taking
• tarrying
• tenanting
• timeless
• tolerating
• toughing it out
• unchanging
• undying
• unvarying
• visiting
• waiting
• wearing

absorbing

• abating
• abiding
• accepting
• acculturating
• accustoming
• acquiescing
• allowing
• alluring
• amalgamating
• amazing
• amusing
• arresting
• assimilating
• astonishing
• astounding
• attracting
• attractive
• bankrupting
• bearing
• beguiling
• bemusing
• bewitching
• biding
• blending
• blowing
• breathtaking
• brooking
• burning
• busying
• capitulating
• captivating
• catching up
• charming
• co-opting
• combining
• commingling
• conditioning
• consuming
• countenancing
• crippling
• curious
• de-escalating
• debilitating
• decreasing
• depleting
• devouring
• diminishing
• disabling
• dissipating
• distracting
• downsizing
• draining
• drawing down
• drinking
• drying up
• dwindling
• eating
• electric
• electrifying
• embodying
• emphatic
• emptying
• enchanting
• enculturating
• enduring
• enfeebling
• engaging
• engrossing
• entertaining
• enthralling
• enwrapping
• eventful
• exciting
• exhausting
• exhilarating
• expending
• eye-opening
• fabulous
• fascinating
• fusing
• galvanizing
• going
• gripping
• gulping
• guzzling
• habituating
• hacking
• handling
• hogging
• hypnotizing
• imbibing
• immersing
• impoverishing
• incorporating
• inspiring
• integrating
• interesting
• intermingling
• intriguing
• involving
• lavishing
• lessening
• living with
• lowering
• marvellous
• marvelous
• meeting
• merging
• mesmerizing
• mingling
• misspending
• monopolizing
• naturalizing
• obsessing
• occupying
• odd
• permitting
• playing out
• pocketing
• preoccupying
• provocative
• quaffing
• reducing
• respecting
• riveting
• rousing
• running out of
• running through
• sapping
• showy
• sipping
• slurping
• spellbinding
• spending
• splashy
• sponging
• squandering
• standing
• standing for
• sticking out
• stimulating
• stirring
• stomaching
• striking
• suffering
• supporting
• surprising
• sustaining
• swallowing
• sweating out
• swigging
• swilling
• taking
• taking up
• tantalizing
• thrilling
• throwing away
• tolerating
• toughing it out
• undermining
• unusual
• using
• using up
• wasting
• weakening
• wearing
• weird
• wonderful
• wondrous

acceding

• abatement
• abiding
• accession
• accommodation
• accord
• accordance
• acknowledging
• acquiescing
• adjustment
• adopting
• affiliation
• affinity
• agreeing
• alleviation
• alliance
• amends
• amity
• approving
• arbitration
• arrangement
• assenting
• assuagement
• authorizing
• bargaining
• blunting
• bowing
• chime
• co
• coming round
• compatibility
• compliance
• complying
• compromise
• concert
• concession
• conciliation
• concord
• concordance
• concurring
• conformity
• congruity
• consenting
• consistency
• correspondence
• easing
• embracing
• endorsing
• enduring
• espousing
• grant
• granting
• harmony
• knuckling under
• lessening
• lulling
• mediation
• mitigation
• moderation
• mollification
• peace offering
• placation
• propitiation
• quelling
• quenching
• quieting
• ratifying
• reconciliation
• relenting
• reparation
• restoration
• settlement
• similarity
• softening
• solace
• soothing
• standing
• stomaching
• submitting
• subscribing
• succumbing
• suffering
• suitableness
• swallowing
• sympathy
• taking
• tolerating
• tranquilization
• understanding
• union
• unison
• verification
• verifying
• yielding

accepting

• abiding
• abject
• absorbing
• acceding
• acceptance
• acceptive
• acclaiming
• accord
• accounting
• accrediting
• acknowledgment
• acquiescence
• acquiescing
• acquiring
• acquisition
• admiring
• admission
• admitting
• adopting
• adoption
• adoring
• adulatory
• advisory
• advocating
• affirmation
• affirming
• agreeing
• agreement
• allowing
• altering
• amenable
• applauding
• applying
• appreciative
• approbatory
• appropriation
• approval
• approving
• arrogation
• artless
• assent
• assenting
• assuming
• assurance
• attending
• attentive
• attestation
• authenticating
• authentication
• authorization
• authorizing
• avowal
• backing
• bearing
• becoming
• belief
• believing
• biding
• bleak
• blue
• born yesterday
• bringing in
• brokenhearted
• brooking
• buying
• capitulating
• certain
• certainty
• championing
• cheerless
• childlike
• collecting
• comfortless
• commendatory
• commending
• compliance
• complimentary
• concentrating
• concluding
• confidence
• confident
• confiding
• confirming
• conjecture
• consent
• consenting
• convinced
• cooperation
• corroborating
• corroboration
• countenancing
• credit
• crediting
• credulous
• crestfallen
• cynical
• dark
• deducing
• dejected
• demonstration
• dependence
• dependent
• depressed
• depressing
• desolate
• despairing
• desperate
• despondent
• disappointed
• disconsolate
• discouraged
• disheartened
• dismal
• dispirited
• doleful
• down
• downcast
• downhearted
• drawing
• drear
• dreary
• dupable
• earning
• easy mark
• embracing
• employing
• encomiastic
• endorsement
• endorsing
• enduring
• enjoying
• espousing
• eulogistic
• evidence
• expectation
• faith
• falling for
• fancy
• favorable
• favoring
• flattering
• forlorn
• friendly
• funereal
• gaining
• gathering
• getting
• gloomy
• glum
• go ahead
• going
• going for
• good
• grab
• green
• green light
• grieving
• growing
• guess
• guileless
• gullable
• gullible
• hacking
• hagiographic
• hagiographical
• handling
• hangdog
• having
• having faith
• hearkening
• heartbroken
• heartsick
• heartsore
• heeding
• holding with
• hopeful
• hopeless
• hunch
• hypothesis
• idolizing
• inconsolable
• indorsing
• inference
• inferring
• inheriting
• innocent
• interested
• joyless
• kind
• laudative
• laudatory
• lauding
• lenient
• liking
• living with
• low
• low-spirited
• magnanimous
• making
• meeting
• melancholy
• merciful
• miserable
• mournful
• naive
• nod
• obtaining
• okay
• okaying
• open
• open-minded
• overconfident
• overtrusting
• panegyrical
• passage
• passing
• paying attention
• permission
• permitting
• pessimistic
• pocketing
• posit
• positive
• postulate
• postulation
• practicing
• praiseful
• praising
• premise
• presuming
• presumption
• presupposition
• proof
• proving
• ratifying
• reaccepting
• reassuming
• receipt
• receiving
• reception
• recognition
• recommendatory
• recommending
• reliance
• reliant
• resigned
• respectful
• respecting
• sad
• saddened
• saluting
• sanction
• sanctioning
• secure
• securing
• seizure
• setting store by
• setting store on
• shot
• shot in the dark
• shouldering
• simple
• sneaking suspicion
• sorrowful
• sorry
• stab
• stamp of approval
• standing
• standing by
• standing for
• sticking out
• stock
• stomaching
• store
• submitting to
• substantiation
• succumbing
• suffering
• support
• supporting
• supportive
• supposal
• supposing
• supposition
• sure
• surmise
• suspicion
• sustaining
• swallow whole
• swallowing
• sweating out
• sympathetic
• taken in
• takeover
• taking
• taking kindly to
• taking on
• taking over
• taking up
• testament
• testimonial
• testimony
• testing
• theorization
• theory
• thesis
• tolerating
• toughing it out
• trustful
• trusting
• uncritical
• understanding
• undertaking
• undoubting
• unhappy
• unquestioning
• unsophisticated
• unsuspecting
• unsuspicious
• unwary
• upholding
• usurpation
• validating
• verification
• verifying
• visa
• wailing
• warm
• warrant
• warranting
• wearing
• weeping
• welcoming
• witness
• woebegone
• woeful
• working
• worshipful
• worshiping
• worshipping
• wretched
• yes

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