Morass - English meaning

noun

(in the southern us) a marshy outlet of a lake or river.

Usage examples:

Alabama's gulf coast extends over 32 miles of beaches along the gulf of mexico and inland areas of …

noun

(in the southern us) an area of slowly moving or still water connected to a river or lake

noun

An area of wet muddy ground that is too soft to support a heavy body.

Usage examples:

A peat bog

verb

Be or become stuck in mud or wet ground.

Usage examples:

The car became bogged down on the beach road

noun

An area of soft, wet earth

noun

Fen woodland or scrub that is typically dominated by alder or willow.

Usage examples:

Reed-fringed dykes in the very centre of the vast halvergate marshes harbour a few in winter; fenla…

Written abbreviation for carriage forward

noun

Complete disorder and confusion.

Usage examples:

Snow caused chaos in the region

noun

A state of disorder and confusion

Usage examples:

Repairs to the major highway this summer will bring chaos to commuters., the house is a little chao…

verb

Cover or fill (something) with an untidy collection of things.

Usage examples:

The room was cluttered with his bric-a-brac

noun

A collection of things lying about in an untidy state.

Usage examples:

The attic is full of clutter

noun

A condition of disorder, or a lot of objects that are in a state of disorder

Usage examples:

The basement work area is filled with creative clutter., the family room was cluttered with toys.

noun

Uncertainty about what is happening, intended, or required.

Usage examples:

There seems to be some confusion about which system does what

noun

A lack of understanding, or a state of disorder

Usage examples:

[ c ] she writes about the confusions of her life., [ u ] in the confusion, i lost my wallet.

noun

The action or fact of entangling or being entangled.

Usage examples:

Many dolphins die from entanglement in fishing nets

noun

The condition of being wrapped and twisted together in a mass

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Entanglements of cables and wires, a legal entanglement

noun

A low and marshy or frequently flooded area of land.

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A native species of fens and damp meadows

noun

A monetary unit of china, equal to one hundredth of a yuan.

Usage examples:

Of some 10 million containers, 70 per cent were purchased at the rate of two fen each.

noun

An area of low, flat, wet land in england

Usage examples:

Areas of marsh and fen, the road to ely leads out across the fens.

noun

An extremely confused, complicated, or embarrassing situation.

Usage examples:

The abdication imbroglio of 1936

noun

An unwanted, difficult, and confusing situation, full of trouble and problems

Usage examples:

The soviet union became anxious to withdraw its soldiers from the afghan imbroglio.

noun

An untidy collection or pile of things.

Usage examples:

The books were in a chaotic jumble

verb

Mix up in a confused or untidy way.

Usage examples:

A drawer full of letters jumbled together

noun

A confused mixture or mass of things

Usage examples:

A jumble of papers on the desk, the events of the last few weeks are all jumbled up in my mind.

noun

Marsh.

adjective

Characteristic of a mare.

noun

An area of low-lying land which is flooded in wet seasons or at high tide, and typically remains waterlogged at all times.

Usage examples:

The marsh marigold loves damp fields, riverbanks, and marshes

Low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation

noun

An area of low, wet land, usually covered with tall grasses

Usage examples:

[ c ] the marshes along the coast are home to many shorebirds., marshy ground

noun

Land consisting of marshes.

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Acres of meadows and marshlands

noun

An area of marsh

noun

A stretch of swampy or boggy ground.

Usage examples:

Acres of land had been reduced to a mire

verb

Cause to become stuck in mud.

Usage examples:

Sometimes a heavy truck gets mired down

noun

An area of deep, wet, sticky earth, or fig. any messy situation

Usage examples:

The cart’s wheels sank in the red mire., fig. at the time the country was mired in the great depres…

idiom

Assemble without order or sense

phrasal verb

Spoil the order or arrangement of a collection of things.

Usage examples:

The papers got mixed up when they slid off her lap

phrasal verb

Confuse someone or something with another person or thing.

Usage examples:

I'd got her mixed up with her sister

noun

A tract of open uncultivated upland, typically covered with heather.

Usage examples:

A little town in the moors

verb

Make fast (a boat) by attaching it by cable or rope to the shore or to an anchor.

Usage examples:

Twenty or so fishing boats were moored to the pierside

noun

A member of a north-western african muslim people of mixed berber and arab descent. in the 8th century they conquered the iberian peninsula, but were finally driven out of their last stronghold in granada at the end of the 15th century.

Usage examples:

For centuries córdoba was the moors' capital and one of europe's most sophisticated cities

noun

A small flowerless green plant that lacks true roots, growing in damp habitats and reproducing by means of spores released from stalked capsules.

Usage examples:

The trees are overgrown with vines and moss

verb

Cover with moss.

Usage examples:

Nature has mossed the gravel walks and roads

adjective

Tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants

verb

Bring into a disordered or confusing state.

Usage examples:

I fear he may have muddled the message

noun

An untidy and disorganized state or collection.

Usage examples:

The finances were in a muddle

noun

A messy and confused state

Usage examples:

Her life was in a muddle.

noun

(in the southern us) an area of low, swampy ground, typically wooded.

Usage examples:

The fall line sand hills is home to several related but distinctive plant communities: longleaf pin…

noun

A marshy or boggy place.

Usage examples:

The entire region plunged into deep chaos and a nation was caught up in a deep quag, that it is sti…

noun

A soft boggy area of land that gives way underfoot.

Usage examples:

Torrential rain turned the building site into a quagmire

noun

A situation that can easily trap you so that you become involved with problems from which it is difficult to escape

Usage examples:

When i tried to get my tax situation straightened out with the government, i ran into a bureaucrati…

noun

Loose wet sand that yields easily to pressure and sucks in anything resting on or falling into it.

Usage examples:

It's best to travel with a local as there are quicksands

noun

A swamp.

Usage examples:

The main landscape feature is endless peat bog, surrounded by marsh, leading into morasses, sloughs…

verb

Shed or remove (a layer of dead skin).

Usage examples:

A snake sloughs off its old skin

noun

The dropping off of dead tissue from living flesh.

Usage examples:

The drugs can cause blistering and slough

noun

An area of low-lying, uncultivated ground where water collects; a bog or marsh.

Usage examples:

They usually breed in marshes and brushy swamps with some open water, dense, low vegetation, and pe…

verb

Overwhelm or flood with water.

Usage examples:

A huge wave swamped the canoes

noun

An area of very wet, soft land

Usage examples:

[ c ] alligators live in these swamps., a low-lying, swampy region, the boat was swamped by an enor…

verb

Twist together into a confused mass.

Usage examples:

The broom somehow got tangled up in my long skirt

noun

A confused mass of something twisted together.

Usage examples:

A tangle of golden hair

noun

Any of a number of brown seaweeds, especially oarweed.

Usage examples:

An entirely natural extract, it is based on seaweed or tangle, widely available around scotland's s…