welter

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1. welter - Noun

2. welter - Adjective

3. welter - Verb

4. Welter - Proper noun

Meaning

To roll, as the body of an animal; to tumble about, especially in anything foul or defiling; to wallow.

To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows.

To wither; to wilt.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the most heavily weighted race in a meeting; as, a welter race; the welter stakes.

That in which any person or thing welters, or wallows; filth; mire; slough.

A rising or falling, as of waves; as, the welter of the billows; the welter of a tempest.

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Monsters merge and welter through the water's mounting Din. All hands, stand fast! A sailor sprints aloft, Hangs, swelling spider-like, among invisible nets, Surveys his slowly undulating snares, and waits. Adam Mickiewicz

In the welter of conflicting fanaticisms, one of the few unifying forces is scientific truthfulness, by which I mean the habit of basing our beliefs upon observations and inferences as impersonal, and as much divested of local and temperamental bias, as is possible for human beings. Bertrand Russell

What reason, I ask, a reason so much vaster than the other, makes dreams seem so natural and allows me to welcome unreservedly a welter of episodes so strange that they could confound me now as I write? And yet I can believe my eyes, my ears; this great day has arrived, this beast has spoken. André Breton

welter in work Source: Internet

pigs were wallowing in the mud Source: Internet

The shipwrecked survivors weltered in the sea for hours Source: Internet

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