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marsh·y
(mär′shē)adj. marsh·i·er, marsh·i·est
1. Of, resembling, or characterized by a marsh or marshes.
2. Growing in marshes.
marsh′i·ness n.
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marshy
(ˈmɑːʃɪ)adj, marshier or marshiest
(Physical Geography) of, involving, or like a marsh
ˈmarshiness n
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marsh•y
(ˈmɑr ʃi)adj. marsh•i•er, marsh•i•est.
1. like a marsh; soft and wet.
2. of or consisting of a marsh.
[1350–1400]
marsh′i•ness, n.
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Adj. | 1. | marshy - (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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marshy
adjective swampy, wet, waterlogged, spongy, boggy, fenny, miry, paludal, quaggy the broad, marshy plain of the river
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Translations
مُسْتَنْقَعي، سَبْخي
bažinatý
ingoványosláposmocsarasmocsáriposványos
mÿrlendur
batakbataklığa ait
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
marshy
[ˈmɑːrʃi] adj → marécageux/euseCollins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
marshy
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
marshy
[ˈmɑːʃɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) → paludoso/aCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
marsh
(maːʃ) noun (an area of) soft wet land. The heavy rainfall turned the land into a marsh.
ˈmarshy adjectiveˈmarshiness noun
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