welter
verb (used without object)
to roll, toss, or heave, as waves or the sea.
weltered
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past participleof welter.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof welter.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
welterverb (used without object)to roll, toss, or heave, as waves or the sea.
Example Sentences
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For 48 hours the West weltered in the confusion of factlessness: the air waves and the news columns were splashed with words like "purge" and "shake-up."
From Time Magazine Archive
One year ago, on "the tenth day of the tenth month," there was a relatively stable northern Government at Peking, and the southern Government at Canton weltered in the doldrums of impotence.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
They weltered in the mire of fraud and deceit, behaved like cheap sharpers.
From Against the Grain by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
All through these wretched months, Lem Lutts had weltered in jail.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald
