Welter

Definition: Welter

Welter

Noun

1. A confused multitude of things.

Verb

1. Toss, roll, or rise and fall in an uncontrolled way; "The shipwrecked survivors weltered in the sea for hours".

2. Roll around, as of a pig in mud.

3. Be immersed in, as of work.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "welter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1637. (references)

Occupations

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Welter

Killing

Die a violent death, welter in one's blood; dash out one's brains, blow out one's brains; commit suicide; kill oneself, make away with oneself, put an end to oneself, put an end to it all.

Plunge

Get out of one's depth; go to the bottom, go down like a stone, drop like a lead balloon; founder, welter, wallow.

Rotation

Roll up, furl; wallow, welter; box the compass; spin like a top, spin like a teetotum.

Crosswords: Welter

Italian (welter weight), Luxembourgish (Welter).

Welter (1987)

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[Wagon full of gaily dressed characters] / Welter. Chez Aubert, gal: vero-dodat. Imp: d'Aubert. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Weg met Welter, Ruys en Colyn! : staakt tegen loonsverlagingen, kiest Communisten. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "welter": welter in ♦ welter weight. Additional references.

Ending with "welter": light-welter.

Albanian

zhytet (dive, draw), rrëmujë (alarm, bustle, clutter, disarray, disorder, disturbance, dust, farrago, hash, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, jumble, litter, mess, mix up, moil, muss, pandemonium, pell mell, pie, pother, roistering, snafu, tangle, topsy turvy, topsy-turvydom, tumble, upheaval, upset), pështjellim (confusion, winding), lëmsh (ball, clew, clot, jam, jumbal, jumble, mass, mix, mix up, pell mell, pellet, puff, ruck, tangle, winding), bëj lëmsh (ball, mix up, muddle). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فوضى (anarchy, chaos, clatter, clutter, commotion, confusion, disarray, disorder, hugger mugger, jumble, lawlessness, litter, mess, misrule, mix up, muddle, muss, rumpus, shambles, topsy turvy, turmoil), ‏كتلة مختلطة (conglomerate), ‏تمرغ (wallow), ‏تلاطم (conflict, dash, popple), ‏تقلب (alteration, change, fickleness, float, fluctuate, fluctuation, flux, inconsistency, inconstancy, levity, oscillate, oscillation, swing, toss, tumble, turn, variation, versatility, vicissitude), ‏ترنح (beat about the bush, falter, feel groggy, grogginess, halt, limp, lurch, quiver, reel, rock, roll, shake, stagger, stumble, teeter, titubation, totter, walk with a wobble, waver, weave), ‏خليط مشوش, ‏اضطراب (upset), ‏إنغمس (dip, dive, plunge), ‏إصطخب (surge). (various references)

Bulgarian 

силен удар (biff, clip, lick, plunk, slog, slosh, smacker, smasher, sock, stinger, swipe, thump, wallop, welt, whammy, whang, whop), голямо нещо, голям човек, въргалям се (wallop, wallow), валям се (wallow), едър човек (hulk, lump), люшкам се (labor, labour, sway), бъркотия (bungle, clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disturbance, dust, farrago, fuss, hash, havoc, huddle, hugger mugger, hurry-scurry, imbroglio, involution, involvement, jumble, jungle, maze, melee, mess, mess up, mishmash, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, patchwork, pell mell, razzle, razzle-dazzle, rout, salmagundi, skein, snafu, tangle, tumble, uproar, upset), бушувам (bellow, bluster, ramp, storm, surge), борец полусредна категория, боксьор полусредна категория, бия се (combat, fight, meet, toss, tussle, war), потънал съм. (various references)

Czech

zmatek (anarchy, bewilderment, chaos, circus, clutter, confusion, disarray, disorder, disturbance, embroilment, fluster, hash, hodge-podge, jumble, maze, mess up, mix up, moil, muddle, Mull, nonplus, non-plus, pandemonium, perplexity, perturbation, puzzlement, shambles, stew, tangle, tempest, tumble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, turnup, upset), válet se (puddle, roll, wallow), smìsice (combination, mixture), hromada (dump, heap, host, mound, pile, stack). (various references)

Farsi 

پژمردگی (Languor), غلت زدن , خشکی (Land, Mainland, Terrafirma), اغشتن (Imbue, Indoctrinate, Inoculate, Saturate, Smear), اختلاط (Brew, Conglomerate, Integrate, Medley, Mix, Mixture), درهم وبرهمی (Clutter, Disarray, Mash, Misrule, Muss). (various references)

Finnish

piehtaroida (roll, tumble, wallow). (various references)

French

tourbillon, se vautrer dans, se vautrer, se vaciller (weave), se rouler dans, onduler, déferler, confusion. (various references)

German

Wogen (billow, heave, rage, ripple, rolling, surge, swell, to billow, to surge, toss, undulate, wave, waves, welters), rollen (bowl, mangle, roles, roll, roll up, scroll, taxi, to roll, to trundle, toss, trundle, wallow, wind, wind up). (various references)

Greek 

κυλιόμαι (grovel, roll, truckle, trundle), κυλιέμαι, σύγχυση (bewilderment, clutter, confusion, disarray, discomfiture, discomposure, disorientation, embroilment, fogginess, hugger mugger, mix up, muss, perplexity, tumble), βόρβοροσ (mire, muck, mud), ταραχή (agitation, apprehension, bustle, coil, commotion, consternation, disturbance, flurry, fluster, flutter, frenzy, fuss, outbreak, perturbation, pother, restlessness, riot, row, ruction, ruffle, rumpus, scrimmage, stir, trepidation, trouble, turbulence, turmoil, uproar). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תבוסס (roll in, wallow), ערבובי�" (clutter, confusion, disorder, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hodgpodge, hotchpotch, jumble, medley, mess, mingle-mangle, mishmash, muddle, muss, pastiche, tumble). (various references)

Hungarian

hempereg (to roll), hömpölygés (swell), háborgás (churning), fetreng (to flounder, to wallow, to welter), fejetlenség (anarchism, cock-up, huddle, panic, screw-up). (various references)

Italian

tumulto (commotion, disorder, distemper, disturbance, hubbub, riot, tumult, turmoil, uproar), ruzzolare (tumble, tumble down), mucchio (accumulation, bunch, heap, knot, lot, mountain, pile, stack), massa (body, bulk, crowd, earth, ground, heap, lump, mass, mob, multitude, pack, paste). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

朱に�"まる (to welter in blood), ジャンプ競技 (deuce, dugong, genre, jamboree, jewel, jewelry, joule, Juglar cycle, juice, juicer, juju music, juke-box, jumbo, jumbo-jet, jumbo-size, June bride, junior, junior welter, ski jumping, soft drink). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

あけにそまる (to welter in blood), ジュニアウエルター (junior welter). (various references)

Luxembourgish

welter. (various references)

Pig Latin

elterway.(various references)

Portuguese

rebolar-se (wallow), ficar ensopado, espolinhar-se, espojar-se (wallow), encharcar-se (soak), agitar-se (bestir, boil, heave, popple, ripple, seethe, shake, splatter, stir, switch, wiggle). (various references)

Romanian

talmeş-balmeş (confusion, farrago, fustian, glory-hole, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hodge-podge, hotchpotch, hurry-scurry, jumble, mix up, muddle, olio, topsy turvy, upside down), se tãvãli, se scãlda (bathe), harababurã (confusion, fuss, glory-hole, hubbub, jumble, mess, mix up, motley, muddle, pease meal, pell mell, turmoil), dezordine (clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disturbance, disturbances, glory-hole, havoc, hubbub, huddle, hugger mugger, litter, mess, misrule, motley, riot, riots, rough, rout, topsy turvy, tumble, upset). (various references)

Russian 

столпотворение, неразбериха (bewilderment, box-up, confusion, hurrah's nest, mix, mix up, muddle, pell mell, pell-mell, skein, snafu, topsy-turvydom), барахтаться (flounder, puddle, wallow), путаница (addlement, bewilderment, box-up, embroilment, hash, imbroglio, maze, mess, mingle-mangle, mishmash, mix, mix up, mix-up, moil, muddiness, muss, order confusion, ramble, snafu, snafus). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zbrka (bungle, confusion, disarray, fuddle, helter-skelter, hugger mugger, imbroglio, jumble, macaronics, maze, mess, mishmash, muddle, muss, omnium gatherum, pell mell), valjati se (wallow), valjanje (wallow), talasati se (billow, ruffle, undulate), talasanje (backwash, ripple, rolling, undulation), haos (chaos, snafu). (various references)

Spanish

tomar un baño (bath, take a bath, tub), revoltijo (jumble, mess, salmagundi), revolcarse por (wallow), mezcolanza (hodgepodge, hotchpotch, medley, mishmashes, mixture), mezcla confusa, confusión (abashment, baffle, clutter, commotion, confusion, disarray, dislocation, disorganization, distraction, fluster, fog, haziness, huddle, hugger mugger, jumble, knockabout, litter, maze, mess, mix up, mix-up, muddle, mystification, perplexity, pother, puzzlement, shambles, tangle, turmoil), bañarse (bath, bathe, have a bath, leap, wash), agitación (agitation, convulsion, discomposure, excitement, ferment, flurry, fussiness, restiveness, state, stir, twitter). (various references)

Swedish

vältra (roll), kaos (chaos, pandemonium, shambles, snafu, tangle, turmoil). (various references)

Turkish

yuvarlanmak (bowl, roll, roll over, roll up, shoot, trickle, trundle, trundle along, tumble, wallow, wheel), yuvarlanma (roll, rolling, wallow), yüzüstü yatmak, yüzükoyun yatmak, patırtı (ado, bang, Charivari, clamor, clamour, clatter, coil, disorder, dustup, fracas, noise, plump, riot, roughhouse, row, rumpus, sound and fury, stir, to-do, tumult), kargaşa (anarchism, anarchy, Babel, broil, chaos, coil, commotion, confusion, disarray, disorder, disturbance, earthquake, grab bag, hurly burly, moil, muss, pell mell, pellmell, rag bag, riot, rough and tumble, roughhouse, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, shemozzle, snarl, sound and fury, squall, storm, tailspin, tempest, tumult, turbulence, uproar), karışmak (amalgamate, be confused, be mixed up, blend, butt in, combine, commingle, commix, concern, concern oneself, cut in, cut into, get mixed, have one's hand in, interfere, interfuse, interlace, intermeddle, intervene, jumble, jumble together, jumble up, meddle, meld, merge, mingle, mix, mix in, pick at, pick over, poke one's nose into, put one's nose into, put one's oar in, slip in, step in, strike in, take up, tamper, thicken, thrust one's nose in, thrust one's nose into, thrust oneself in, whirl), içinde yuvarlanmak, gürültü (ado, bang, Charivari, clamor, clamour, clatter, coil, crash, din, discord, dustup, fracas, hoi polloi, hubble bubble, hubbub, hullabaloo, kick up, loudness, noise, noisiness, pandemonium, peal, pong, pother, racket, rag, razzle-dazzle, roar, roaring, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, shindy, sound, to-do, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uproar), bulaşmak (be contaminated by, be involved, be transmitted by, become entangled in, catch, get at, get into a row, have a hand in, have one's hand in, mess with, rub on, smear, smudge). (various references)

Ukrainian

стовпотворіння, розбурхана стихія, хвилюватися (bother, care, create, effervesce, fidget, flutter, grizzle, mind, raise a dust, run high, stew, throb, wave), вантаж (burden, cargo, clog, consignment, embarkation, freightage, goods, lading, load, plummet, shipment, stowage, tote, weight, weighting), валятися (lie about, lie around, wallow), накочуватися (wallow), загрузнути (founder), борсатися (busk, dabble, flounder, wallow), безладдя (bewilderment, chaos, clutter, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, disorder, hoity toity, huddle, hugger mugger, mess, misrule, mix, moil, pell mell, pellmell, puddle, racket, shambles, sozzle, topsy turvy, upset), перевалюватися. (various references)

Vietnamese 

vật to lớn, tình trạng rối loạn, sự rối loạn (confusion, convulsion, disorder, disorderliness, misrule, muss, rout, turmoil, turn-up), mớ hỗn độn (gallimaufry, medley, mishmash), cuộc xung đột vu v, đòn nặng người to lớn. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "welter": weltered, weltering, welters, welterweight, welterweights. (additional references)

Words ending with "welter": swelter. (additional references)

Words containing "welter": sweltered, sweltering, swelteringly, swelters. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Welter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lewter, melter, walter, waltzer, walzer, weater, webter, weeler, weiter, weller, wester, Westner, wetar, weter, wetir, Wilfer, Wilger, wilsher, wilten, witler, wolter. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: relet, rewet.

-2 letters: ewer, leer, leet, reel, rete, teel, tele, tree, twee, weel, weer, weet, welt, were, wert.

-3 letters: eel, ere, ewe, lee, let, ree, ret, tee, tel, tew, wee, wet.

-4 letters: el, er, et, re, we.

+1 letter: swelter, welters, wergelt, wrestle.

+2 letters: floweret, swelters, treelawn, troweled, troweler, weltered, wergelts, westerly, wrestled, wrestler, wrestles.

+3 letters: cartwheel, delftware, erstwhile, flowerets, flowmeter, limewater, meltwater, metalware, steelwork, sweltered, sweltrier, tableware, towerlike, treelawns, triweekly, trowelers, trowelled, waterleaf, waterless, waterline, wealthier, weatherly, weltering, wrestlers.

+4 letters: bellwether, bilgewater, cartwheels, delftwares, flowerette, floweriest, flowmeters, limewaters, lusterware, meltwaters, metalwares, newsletter, otherwhile, outwrestle, rottweiler, spleenwort, steelworks, sweltering, sweltriest, tablewares, televiewer, trawlermen, waterleafs, waterlines, watermelon, waterwheel, wentletrap, westerlies, wilderment, wretchedly.