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swampy

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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.

[Perhaps of Low German origin .]

swampi·ness n.
swampy adj.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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"
wet - covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet weather"

swampy
adjective boggy, waterlogged, marshy, wet, fenny, miry, quaggy, marish (obsolete)
Translations
Spanish swampy [ˈswɔmpɪ] adjpantanoso
French swampy [ˈswɔmpɪ] adjmarécageux/euse
German swampy [ˈswɔmpɪ] swamp adjsumpfig
Italian swampy [ˈswɔmpɪ] adjpalludoso/a, pantanoso/a

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Just as the pack came in sight of the river they saw their agile leader racing down the river's bank, leaping from hummock to hummock of the swampy ground that spread between them and a little promontory which rose just where the river curved inward from their sight.
There is insufficient labour and poor tools, no satisfactory method of draining the swampy country, and further, I don't think any one would work with the constant fear of an attack from those savages.
On reaching the copse, Levin got out of the trap and led Oblonsky to a corner of a mossy, swampy glade, already quite free from snow.
 
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