Swamp

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A swamp is an area that floods every year because the land is low. Watch out for alligators if you visit Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana, the largest swamp in the United States.

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

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

Noun
a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables; "he was trapped in a medical swamp"

Verb
fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"

Verb
drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged; "The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor"

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

v. t.
To plunge or sink into a swamp.

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

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

v. i.
To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.

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

Swamp

Swamp , n. [Cf. AS. swam a fungus, OD. swam a sponge, D. zwam a fungus, G. schwamm a sponge, Icel. sv'94ppr, Dan. & Sw. swamp, Goth. swamms, Gr. somfo`s porous, spongy.] Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.
Gray swamps and pools, waste places of the hern.
A swamp differs from a bog and a marsh in producing trees and shrubs, while the latter produce only herbage, plants, and mosses.
Swamp blackbird. (Zo'94l.) See Redwing (b). -- Swamp cabbage (Bot.), skunk cabbage. -- Swamp deer (Zo'94l.), an Asiatic deer (Rucervus Duvaucelli) of India. -- Swamp hen. (Zo'94l.) (a) An Australian azure-breasted bird (Porphyrio bellus); -- called also goollema. (b) An Australian water crake, or rail (Porzana Tabuensis); -- called also little swamp hen. (c) The European purple gallinule. -- Swamp honeysuckle (Bot.), an American shrub (Azalea, ∨ Rhododendron, viscosa) growing in swampy places, with fragrant flowers of a white color, or white tinged with rose; -- called also swamp pink. -- Swamp hook, a hook and chain used by lumbermen in handling logs. Cf. Cant hook. -- Swamp itch. (Med.) See Prairie itch, under Prairie. -- Swamp laurel (Bot.), a shrub (Kalmia glauca) having small leaves with the lower surface glaucous. -- Swamp maple (Bot.), red maple. See Maple. -- Swamp oak (Bot.), a name given to several kinds of oak which grow in swampy places, as swamp Spanish oak (Quercus palustris), swamp white oak (Q. bicolor), swamp post oak (Q. lyrata). -- Swamp ore (Min.), big ore; limonite. -- Swamp partridge (Zo'94l.), any one of several Australian game birds of the genera Synoicus and Excalfatoria, allied to the European partridges. -- Swamp robin (Zo'94l.), the chewink. -- Swamp sassafras (Bot.), a small North American tree of the genus Magnolia (M. glauca) with aromatic leaves and fragrant creamy-white blossoms; -- called also sweet bay. -- Swamp sparrow (Zo'94l.), a common North American sparrow (Melospiza Georgiana, or M. palustris), closely resembling the song sparrow. It lives in low, swampy places. -- Swamp willow. (Bot.) See Pussy willow, under Pussy.

Swamp

Swamp , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swamped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Swamping.] 1. To plunge or sink into a swamp. 2. (Naut.) To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water. 3. Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
The Whig majority of the house of Lords was swamped by the creation of twelve Tory peers.
Having swamped himself in following the ignis fatuus of a theory.

Swamp

Swamp, v. i. 1. To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties. 2. To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.

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

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

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Usage Examples

My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.

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