welter

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | 506 words | Copyright

wel·ter¹ / ˈweltər/ • v. [intr.] poetic/lit. move in a turbulent fashion: the streams foam and welter. ∎ lie steeped in blood with no help or care. • n. a large number of items in no order; a confused mass: there's such a welter of conflicting rules. ∎ a state of general disorder: the attack petered out in a welter of bloody, confused fighting. wel·ter² • n. short for welterweight.

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