welter

Plural: welters

Noun

• a confused multitude of things
• A general confusion or muddle, especially of a large number of items.
• A tossing or rolling about.

Verb

Verb Forms: weltered, weltering, welters

• To roll, toss, or heave, as in waves or struggle.
• toss, roll, or rise and fall in an uncontrolled way
  • "The shipwrecked survivors weltered in the sea for hours"
• roll around,
• be immersed in
  • "welter in work"
• To roll around; to wallow.
• To revel, luxuriate.
• To rise and fall, to tumble over, to roll.
• To wither; to wilt.

Adj

• Heavyweight. (of horsemen)

Examples

• The Scrabble board seemed to WELTER with possibilities after his opponent opened up several high-scoring lanes.

Synonyms

clutter, fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, smother, wallow, Whitman's sampler, bouillabaisse, bric-a-brac, catch-all, clamjamfrey, cocktail, congeries, crazyquilt, disjecta membra, farrago, galimatias, gallimaufry, grab bag, hodgepodge, horse and rabbit stew, hotchpot, hotchpotch, job lot, macedoine, medley, melange, mingle-mangle, miscellanea, miscellany, mishmash, mixed bag, mixture, motley, oddments, odds and ends, olio, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, pastiche, patchwork quilt, potpourri, ragbag, salmagundi, slurry, smorgasbord, welter

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