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swamp  (swmp, swômp)

n.

1.

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

b. A lowland region saturated with water.

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

v. swamped, swamp·ing, swamps

v.tr.

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

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

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

v.intr.

To become full of water or sink.

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[Perhaps of Low German origin .]

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swampi·ness n.

swampy adj.

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

swampy - (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous" boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, soggy, waterlogged, squashy, sloppy wet - covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet weather"

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swampy

adjective boggy, waterlogged, marshy, wet, fenny, miry, quaggy, marish (obsolete) the swampy lowlands of southern Tuscany

Translations

swampy [ˈswɒmpɪ] ADJ → pantanoso, cenagoso

swampy [ˈswɒmpi] adj → marécageux/euse

swampy

adj (+er) → sumpfig; to become swampy → versumpfen

swampy [ˈswɒmpɪ] adj → paludoso/a