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wallow'd

Verb
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Rolled about in something unpleasant; here, became deeply involved in it.

Detailed Definition
Wallow'd is an older contracted form of wallowed. In this poem it suggests sinking into sin or lingering in it, with a strong sense of moral and physical immersion.
Example
Example in poetry:
“A year or two, but wallow’d in, a score?” uses wallow’d for being immersed or lingering excessively; the archaic apostrophe marks the omitted e in wallowed; “The pig wallow’d gladly in the cooling mud” retains the literal sense; “He wallow’d in old injuries” uses the common figurative sense of indulging in emotion or memory
Additional Notes
The contracted archaic spelling in the quoted line may puzzle modern readers, and the word is used in a figurative moral sense.; Found in the poem, A Hymn to God the Father by John Donne
Also Known As
immersed engulfed submerged
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