welter
verb (used without object)
to roll, toss, or heave, as waves or the sea.
welters
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present tense formof welter (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Intimations of jazz, Balinese gamelan, African drumming and Japanese music floated from welters of rapid passagework.
From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2010
Carole Bolsey’s paintings are welters of vivid hues from which recognizable forms — boats, a horse — emerge.
From Washington Post
He who, death-wounded, welters there, Came hither, o'er the deep to bear Far off from her paternal nest, The white dove I have watched so long.
From Mazelli, and Other Poems by George W. Sands
Jormungand welters In giant rage And smites the waves.
From The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Rasmus Björn Anderson
He has no imagination at all—or, what is the same thing, an imagination which welters in impotence, far below the level of the emotions which it ought to overrule.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various
