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marshy

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marsh·y  (märsh)
adj. marsh·i·er, marsh·i·est
1. Of, resembling, or characterized by a marsh or marshes; boggy.
2. Growing in marshes.
marshi·ness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.marshy - (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, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, soggy, swampy, waterlogged, squashy, sloppy
wet - covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet weather"
Translations
marshy [ˈmɑːʃɪ] adj → pantanoso
marshy [ˈmɑːʃɪ] adj → marécageux/euse
marshy [ˈmɑːʃɪ] marsh adj → sumpfig
marshy [ˈmɑːʃɪ] adj → paludoso/a


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The Frogs were living as happy as could be in a marshy swamp that just suited them; they went splashing about caring for nobody and nobody troubling with them.
Fables by Aesop View in context
The shores were in some places high and rocky, with low marshy islands at their feet, subject to inundation, and covered with willows, poplars, and other trees that love an alluvial soil.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
Besides, it was very convenient on an excursion; much better than those garden-chairs which are convertible into walking-sticks; upon occasion, a chief calling his attendant, and desiring him to make a settee of himself under a spreading tree, perhaps in some damp marshy place.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
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