The meaning of Swamp

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

A severe flood.

Usage examples:

This may be the worst deluge in living memory

verb

Overwhelm with a flood.

Usage examples:

Caravans were deluged by the heavy rains

noun

A very large volume of something, more than can be managed

Usage examples:

The newspaper received a deluge of complaints about the article., the senator’s office was deluged …

verb

Wet thoroughly; soak.

Usage examples:

I fell in the stream and was drenched

noun

A dose of medicine administered to an animal.

Usage examples:

A worming drench

verb

To make someone or something extremely wet

Usage examples:

The rain drenched my clothes.

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

Land consisting of fens.

Usage examples:

Thousands of acres of fenland

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 overflow of a large amount of water beyond its normal limits, especially over what is normally dry land.

Usage examples:

The villagers had been cut off by floods and landslides

verb

Short for floodlight.

verb

To fill or become covered with water or to cause this to happen to something

Usage examples:

[ t ] a burst pipe flooded the bathroom., [ i ] the basements of many downtown buildings would floo…

verb

Dip or submerge in a liquid.

Usage examples:

Immerse the paper in water for twenty minutes

verb

To involve someone completely in an activity

Usage examples:

She immersed herself wholly in her work., immerse the egg in boiling water., the course offers tota…

verb

Overwhelm (someone) with things or people to be dealt with.

Usage examples:

We've been inundated with complaints from listeners

verb

To bring to a place or person too much of something, so that it cannot be dealt with

Usage examples:

After appearing on tv they were inundated with telephone calls for a week., we were inundated with …

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…

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

An area of muddy or boggy ground.

Usage examples:

In midwinter the track beneath this bridge became a muddy morass

noun

Something that is extremely complicated and difficult to deal with, making any advance almost impossible

Usage examples:

The morass of rules and regulations is delaying the start of the project.

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

(chiefly in the caribbean or south america) a salt pan, salt lake, or salt marsh.

Usage examples:

Playas (salinas in south america; sabkhas or sebkhas in africa) are found in closed interior basins…

verb

Cause (something) to become thoroughly soaked with water or other liquid so that no more can be absorbed.

Usage examples:

The soil is saturated

noun

A saturated fat.

Usage examples:

As far as the heart is concerned saturates are considered the main enemy

adjective

Saturated with moisture.

verb

Make or allow (something) to become thoroughly wet by immersing it in liquid.

Usage examples:

Soak the beans overnight in water

noun

An act of immersing someone or something in liquid for a period of time.

Usage examples:

I'm looking forward to a long soak in the bath

verb

Submerge in a liquid

noun

A pit or hollow in which liquid collects, especially one in the floor of a mine or cave.

Usage examples:

The firm also claimed that each skip had four drainage holes to allow waste liquid to drain into a …

noun

A hole or container, especially in the lower part of an engine, into which a liquid that is not needed can flow

noun

Land consisting of swamps.

Usage examples:

Many had trekked through swampland to reach the border

noun

An area of swamp

noun

Land consisting of marshes or swamps; saturated land.

Usage examples:

The draining of british wetlands

noun

A large area of land covered with swamp or marsh