<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to roll, toss, or heave, as waves or the sea (used without object)</li><li>to roll, writhe, or tumble about; wallow, as animals (often followed by about): pigs weltering about happily in the mud</li><li>to lie bathed in or be drenched in something, especially blood</li><li>to become deeply or extensively involved, associated, entangled, etc.: to welter in setbacks, confusion, and despair</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a confused mass; a jumble or muddle: a welter of anxious faces</li><li>a state of commotion, turmoil, or upheaval: the welter that followed the surprise attack</li><li>a rolling, tossing, or tumbling about, as or as if by the sea, waves, or wind: They found the shore through the mighty welter</li></ul>