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1. (n.) swamp
a tract of wet, spongy land, usu. with abundant vegetation.
2. (v.t.) swamp
to flood or drench, esp. with water.
3. swamp
to sink or fill (a boat) with water.
4. swamp
to overwhelm, esp. to overwhelm with an excess of something:
swamped with work.
5. swamp
to clear underbrush from, esp. to make a trail.
6. (v.i.) swamp
to fill with water and sink, as a boat.
Etymology: (1840–50, Amer.)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) swamp, swampland
low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
2. (verb) swamp
a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables
"he was trapped in a medical swamp"
3. (verb) swamp, drench
drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
"The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor"
4. (verb) deluge, flood, inundate, swamp
fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
"the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"
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1. (noun) swamp
a large area of low wet ground
the swamps of Florida
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) SWAMP
wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore
2. (verb) SWAMP
to plunge or sink into a swamp
3. (verb) SWAMP
to cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water
4. (verb) SWAMP
fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck
5. (verb) SWAMP
to sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties
6. (verb) SWAMP
to become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked
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Sense: (an area of) wet, marshy ground
These trees grow best in swamp(s).
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 Afrikaans: moeras |
 Arabic: مُسْتَنْقَع |
 Bulgarian: блато |
 Brazilian: pântano |
 Czech: močál |
 German: der Sumpf |
 Danish: sump; mose |
 Greek: βάλτος |
 Spanish: pantano, ciénaga |
 Estonian: soo |
 Farsi: مرداب |
 Finnish: suo |
 French: marécage |
 Hebrew: בִּיצָה |
 Hindi: झाबर, अनूप, दलदल |
 Croatian: močvara, baruština |
 Hungarian: mocsár |
 Indonesian: rawa |
 Icelandic: blautlendi, mÿri, fen |
 Italian: palude |
 Japanese: 沼地 |
 Korean: 습지 |
 Lithuanian: liūnas, pelkė |
 Latvian: purvs |
 Malay: paya |
 Dutch: moeras |
 Norwegian: sump, myr |
 Polish: moczary !! added verb– za |
 Persian: مرداب |
 Pashto: جبه ، په جبه کی نښتل،خخید |
 Portuguese: pântano |
 Romanian: mlaştină |
 Russian: болото |
 Slovak: močiar |
 Slovenian: močvirje |
 Serbian: močvara |
 Swedish: träsk, kärr, sumpmark |
 Thai: หนองน้ำ |
 Turkish: bataklık |
 Taiwanese: 沼澤(地) |
 Ukrainian: болото, драговина |
 Urdu: دلدلی علاقہ |
 Vietnamese: đầm lầy |
 Chinese: 沼泽（地） |
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