Swamp
[swɒmp] or [swɑmp]
Definition
(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'.
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Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Bog, fen, quagmire, morass, marsh, slough, spongy land, soft and wet ground.
v. a. Ingulf, sink, whelm, swallow up.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See MARSH]
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Definition
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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Unserious Contents or Definition
To walk through swampy places in dreams, foretells that you will be the object of adverse circumstances. Your inheritance will be uncertain, and you will undergo keen disappointments in your love matters. To go through a swamp where you see clear water and green growths, you will take hold on prosperity and singular pleasures, the obtaining of which will be attended with danger and intriguing. See Marsh.
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Examples
- Houston lived some distance from the town and generally went home late at night, having to pass through a dark cypress swamp over a corduroy road. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There was about two feet of water in this swamp at the time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The abundant remains of these first swamp forests constitute the main coal-measures of the world to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Look, how muddy his horse is, flouncing about in the swamp; the dogs, too, look rather crestfallen. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It is a swamp adder! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- In the Later Pal?ozoic Period that visitant might have been equally sure that life could not go beyond the edge of a swamp. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is only a narrow swamp that we have to pass in a long journey. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Inexperienced in government, she plunged into all manner of useless expenditure, and swamped her treasury almost in a day. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It was as if some reservoir of black emotion had burst within him, and swamped him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The company was soon swamped with propositions for sale of territorial rights and with other negotiations, and some of these were accompanied by the offer of very large sums of money. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The clearing-house for gold had been swamped, and all was mixed up. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Instead of urging that issues are inevitable, instead of being swamped by problems that are unavoidable, we may stand up and affirm the issues we propose to handle. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I don't intend to be swamped by redcoats. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I should be sorry were it otherwise, as, were it lower, we might run a chance of being swamped by the influx of waters. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- There's two runaways in the swamps. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The range of life of the Upper Pal?ozoic Period was confined to warm water or to warm swamps and wet ground. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It not only lets occasions for thinking go unused, but it swamps thinking. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- What seems plainer than that the long toes, not furnished with membrane, of the Grallatores, are formed for walking over swamps and floating plants. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- As Cassy expected, when quite near the verge of the swamps that encircled the plantation, they heard a voice calling to them to stop. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- This strip of land from ocean to ocean abounded in disease-breeding swamps and filthy habitations unfit for human beings. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Barlow pushed forward with great vigor, under a heavy fire of both artillery and musketry, through thickets and swamps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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