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Welter

//ˈwɛltə// adj, name, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective

1
Heavyweight. (of horsemen)
"a welter race"

Proper Noun

1
A surname.

Noun

1
A general confusion or muddle, especially of a large number of items.
"He would, except for his guests, have fled outdoors and walked off the intoxication of food, but in the haze which filled the room they sat forever, talking, talking, while he agonized, “Darn fool to be eating all this—not ’nother mouthful,” and discovered that he was again tasting the sickly welter of melted ice cream on his plate."
2
a confused multitude of things wordnet
3
A tossing or rolling about.

Verb

1
To roll around; to wallow. intransitive
"[…] were it not for shame, Shame and dishonour to a soldier’s name, Upon my weapon’s point here shouldst thou fall, And welter in thy gore."
2
To wither; to wilt.
"1860, Isaac Taylor, Ultimate Civilization, and Other Essays, London: Bell & Dalday, “Ultimate Civilization,” Part I, IV, p. 40, But look now into the weltered hearts and blighted memories of those whom we have gathered from out of the thousands of the lost and wretched."
3
be immersed in wordnet
4
To revel, luxuriate. figuratively, intransitive
"1537, Hugh Latimer, Sermon III, Preached to the Convocation of the Clergy, in The Sermons of Hugh Latimer, London: J. Scott, 1783, Volume I, p. 38, When we welter in pleasures and idleness, then we eat and drink with drunkards."
5
roll around wordnet

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6
To rise and fall, to tumble over, to roll. intransitive
"Such Musick (as ’tis said) Before was never made, But when of old the sons of morning sung, While the Creator Great His constellations set, And the well-ballanc’t world on hinges hung, And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltring waves their oozy channel keep."
7
toss, roll, or rise and fall in an uncontrolled way wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English welteren, equivalent to welt + -er (frequentative suffix). Cognates include German Low German weltern (“to wallow; roll”), Old Norse velta (Danish vælte), German wälzen, Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌻𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (waltjan). Akin to wallow and Latin volvō.

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

Compare wilt (intransitive verb).

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