Swamp

[swɒmp] or [swɑmp]

解釋/意思:

(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.) drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged; 'The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor'.

爱德温錄入--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(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.

編輯:利拉

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Bog, fen, quagmire, morass, marsh, slough, spongy land, soft and wet ground.

v. a. Ingulf, sink, whelm, swallow up.

校對:鲁本

同義詞及反義詞：

[See MARSH]

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解釋/意思:

n. wet spongy land: low ground filled with water.—v.t. to sink in or as in a swamp: to overset or cause to fill with water as a boat.—adj. Swamp′y consisting of swamp: wet and spongy.

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