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mo·rass

 (mə-răs′, mô-)
n.
1. An area of low-lying, soggy ground.
2. Something that hinders, engulfs, or overwhelms: a morass of details.
[Dutch moeras, from Middle Dutch maras, from Old French mareis, probably of Germanic origin; see mori- in Indo-European roots.]
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morass

(məˈræs)
n
1. (Physical Geography) a tract of swampy low-lying land
2. a disordered or muddled situation or circumstance, esp one that impedes progress
[C17: from Dutch moeras, ultimately from Old French marais marsh]
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mo•rass

(məˈræs)

n.
1. a tract of low, soft, wet ground.
2. a marsh or bog.
3. something that is confusing or troublesome or from which it is difficult to free oneself.
[1645–55; < Dutch moeras, alter. of Middle Dutch maras < Old French mareis < Germanic. See marsh]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.morass - a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfootmorass - a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
mire, quag, quagmire, slack
bog, peat bog - wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel
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morass

noun
1. mess, confusion, chaos, jam (informal), tangle, mix-up, muddle, quagmire I tried to drag myself out of the morass of despair.
2. marsh, swamp, bog, slough, fen, moss (Scot. & Northern English dialect), quagmire, marshland a morass of gooey mud
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morass

noun
1. A usually low-lying area of soft waterlogged ground and standing water:
bog, fen, marsh, marshland, mire, muskeg, quag, quagmire, slough, swamp, swampland, wetland.
2. Something that is intricately and often bewilderingly complex:
cat's cradle, entanglement, jungle, knot, labyrinth, maze, mesh (often used in plural), skein, snarl, tangle, web.
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Translations
مُسْتَنْقَع، أرْض سَبْخَه
močál
morads
mÿrlendi, fen
klampynė
purvsslīkšņa

morass

[məˈræs] N → cenagal m, pantano m
a morass of problems → un laberinto de problemas
a morass of figures → un mar de cifras
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

morass

[məˈræs] n [corruption, problems] → bourbier m
a legal morass → un bourbier judiciaire
an economic morass → un bourbier économique
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

morass

n → Morast m, → Sumpf m (also fig); to be sucked into the morass (of vice) → sich immer tiefer (im Laster) verstricken; a morass of problems → ein Wust m → von Problemen; a morass of emotions → ein Wirrwarr m → der Gefühle
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

morass

[məˈræs‘] n → pantano, palude f (fig) → pantano
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

morass

(məˈrӕs) noun
a bog or swamp.
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The forests and morasses of Germany were filled with a hardy race of barbarians, who despised life when it was separated from freedom.
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For four years, now, Jurgis had been wondering and blundering in the depths of a wilderness; and here, suddenly, a hand reached down and seized him, and lifted him out of it, and set him upon a mountain-top, from which he could survey it all--could see the paths from which he had wandered, the morasses into which he had stumbled, the hiding places of the beasts of prey that had fallen upon him.
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