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swamp
(swŏmp, swômp)n.
1.
a. An area of low-lying land that is frequently flooded, especially one dominated by woody plants.
b. A lowland region saturated with water.
2. A situation or place fraught with difficulties and imponderables: a financial swamp.
v. swamped, swamp·ing, swamps
v.tr.
1. To drench in or cover with or as if with water.
2. To inundate or burden; overwhelm: She was swamped with work.
3. Nautical To fill (a ship or boat) with water to the point of sinking it.
v.intr.
To become full of water or sink.
[Perhaps of Low German origin .]
swamp′i·ness n.
swamp′y adj.
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swamp•y
(ˈswɒm pi)adj. swamp•i•er, swamp•i•est.
of the nature of or abounding in swamps.
[1640–50]
swamp′i•ness, n.
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Adj. | 1. | swampy - (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous" wet - covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet weather" |
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swampy
adjective boggy, waterlogged, marshy, wet, fenny, miry, quaggy, marish (obsolete) the swampy lowlands of southern Tuscany
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مُسْتَنْقَعي
bažinatý
blaut-/mÿrlendur
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swampy
[ˈswɒmpi] adj → marécageux/euseCollins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
swampy
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[ˈswɒmpɪ] adj → paludoso/aCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
swamp
(swomp) noun (an area of) wet, marshy ground. These trees grow best in swamp(s).
verb to cover or fill with water. A great wave swamped the deck.
ˈswampy adjective (of land) covered with swamp; marshy.
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