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   Wel·ter

   /ˈweltər/

   

   verb

   • 1. move in a turbulent fashion: literary "the streams foam and welter"
   • ▪ lie steeped in blood with no help or care. literary

   noun

   • 1. 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"

   Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘writhe, wallow’): from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German welteren.

   Scrabble Points: 9

   • W

     4

   • E

     1

   • L

     1

   • T

     1

   • E

     1

   • R

     1

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