welter
verb (used without object)
to roll, toss, or heave, as waves or the sea.
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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With each successive year since the fall of the Empire, China has weltered ever deeper in the morass of civil war.
From Time Magazine Archive
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