noun
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A general confusion or muddle.
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A tossing or rolling about.
verb
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To roll around; to wallow.
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To revel, luxuriate.
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(of waves, billows) To rise and fall, to tumble over, to roll.
Examples of welter in a Sentence
In all this welter of party strife what real hope is there for Scotland?
In recent days we have seen a welter of forecasts ranging from the reassuring to the pessimistic.
Essential concerns are lost in a welter of detail.
Shows crucial omissions in content, or meaning has disappeared in a welter of irrelevant material.
Any mention of charging for services produces a welter of panicked messages.
Where revolutions do not act, they are submerged in a welter of words.
The evening is similar the wealth of personal narratives simply subside into a welter of information.
In the face of this welter of depressing statistics, any hope of improvement might seem misplaced.
This dreadful disease produced a welter of emotions in the medieval mind.
Responsible of course to the elector, the Statthalter, aided by the privy council, conducted the internal affairs of the electorate, generally in a peaceful and satisfactory fashion, until the welter of the Napoleonic wars.
According to Welter's rule, we deduct II 0 with the equivalent amount of hydrogen, namely, 22 H, and are left with the residue 12 C, the heat of combustion of which is 1131600 cal.
The most complete list of Gay-Lussac's papers is contained in the Royal Society's Catalogue of Scientific Papers, which enumerates 148, exclusive of others written jointly with Humboldt, Thenard, Welter and Liebig.
Immediately after the sack of Lawrence, John Brown and a small band murdered and mutilated five pro-slavery men, on Pottawatomie Creek; a horrible deed, showing a new spirit on the freestate side, and of ghastly consequence - for it contributed powerfully to widen further the licence of highway robbery, pillage and arson, the ruin of homes, the driving off of settlers, marauding expeditions, attacks on towns, outrages in short of every kind, that made the following months a welter of lawlessness and crime, until Governor Geary - by putting himself above all partisanship, repudiating Missouri, and using Federal troops put an end to them late in 1856.