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n. A seasonally flooded bottomland with more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog.

n. A lowland region saturated with water.

n. A situation or place fraught with difficulties and imponderables: a financial swamp.

v. To drench in or cover with or as if with water.

v. To inundate or burden; overwhelm: She was swamped with work.

v. Nautical To fill (a ship or boat) with water to the point of sinking it.

verb-intransitive. To become full of water or sink.

n. A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.

n. A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures who have adapted specifically to that environment.

v. To drench or fill with water.

v. To overwhelm; to make too busy or overrun capacity.

n. Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.

v. To plunge or sink into a swamp.

v. To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.

v. Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.

verb-intransitive. To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.

verb-intransitive. To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.

n. A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.

n. In coal-mining, a local depression in a coal-bed, in which water may collect.

n. A shallow lake.

To plunge, whelm, or sink in a swamp, or as in a swamp.

To plunge into inextricable difficulties; overwhelm; ruin; hence, to outbalance; exceed largely in numbers.

Nautical, to overset, sink, or cause to become filled, as a boat, in water; whelm.

To cut out (a road) into a forest. See swamper.

To sink or stick in a swamp; hence, to be plunged in inextricable difficulties.

To become filled with water and sink, as a boat; founder; hence, to be ruined; be wrecked.

Thin; slender; lean.

In lumbering, to clear (the ground) of under-brush, fallen trees, and other obstructions preparatory to constructing a logging-road or opening out a gutter-road.

n. a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables

n. low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog

v. fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid

v. drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged

"It was legendary producer Jerry Wexler who coined the phrase "swamp" to describe the music coming out of studios in Macon, Ga., and Muscle Shoals, Ala."

swamped    swamping    swamps   

situation    make full    fill up    fill    flood   

swamp rose-mallow    swamp bay (or red hay)    swamp globe-flower    swamp spanish oak    swamp sugar-pear    swamp post-oak    swamp pea-tree    to swamp it    black-gum swamp    swamp white oak   

swamp wallaby    swampland    swampy    swamp gum   

overwhelm    ruin    wreck    founder    marsh    sink    fail   

Duchamp    chomp    comp    pomp    romp    stomp    tromp   

marsh    jungle    forest    thicket    valley    meadow    lake    creek    pond    ravine