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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
welter/ˈweltə(r)/

▶verb literary

1 move in a turbulent fashion.

2 lie steeped in blood.

▶noun a large number of items in no order; a confused mass.

■ a state of general disorder.

– origin ME (in the sense ‘writhe, wallow’): from MDu., Mid. Low Ger. welteren.

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