welter
wel ter
- n a confused multitude of things
- v toss, roll, or rise and fall in an uncontrolled way
The shipwrecked survivors weltered in the sea for hours - v roll around, "pigs were wallowing in the mud"
- v be immersed in
welter in work
- In the welter of stories one hard fact stuck out: the white-haired, 57-year-old prelate had left his red brick palace and flown across Canada to the seclusion of a Catholic nursing .
- While the strong men of China welter in anarchy (see above), and her great diplomats flounder be wildered (see below), are there not any cool-browed, wise Chinese wives who keep .
- Mandel Ngan AFP Getty Romney offered a welter of details, of Sunnis and Shi'ites and Kurds, which sounded sort of knowledgeable but was actually quite superficial he said .