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welter
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synonyms: ¹verhoodled,tohubohu, at sixes and sevens ???
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Definition:1. {n} confusion or in a jumble2. {v} to roll, as a ship on the ocean
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For an age he sat stunned, his mind a welter of incoherence,
P. G. Wodehouse. The Girl in Blue, p.57 (1971)
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The ship was talking, as sailors say, loudly, treading the innumerable ripples with an incessant weltering splash;
Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island (1882)
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The picture represents a Cape-Horner in a great hurricane; the half-foundered ship weltering there with its three dismantled masts alone visible; and an exasperated whale, purposing to spring clean over the craft, is in the enormous act of impaling himself upon the three mast-heads.
Herman Melville. Moby Dick (1851)
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thanks to the awning which stirred outside the ever-open windows through which, upon an incessant stream of air, the cool shade and the greenish sunlight moved as though over a liquid surface and suggested the weltering proximity, the glitter, the mirroring instability of the sea.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 6]
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had destroyed himself, and had been found in the morning weltering in blood.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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