marshy

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An aircraft recovery team headed out at first light Saturday for a marshy area near the Prado Dam where a single-engine Piper Cherokee crashed, killing the couple aboard.

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  1. adjective Of, resembling, or characterized by a marsh or marshes; boggy.
  2. adjective Growing in marshes.

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  • An aircraft recovery team headed out at first light Saturday for a marshy area near the Prado Dam where a single-engine Piper Cherokee crashed, killing the couple aboard. —  Fore, right!
  • Sunday from a 21-year-old man who said his friend fell off the Highway 77 bridge and into a marshy area about 30 feet below. —  kstp.com - MORE NEWS
  • Sunday from a 21-year-old man who said his friend fell off the Highway 77 bridge and into a marshy area about 30 feet below. mobile. —  WTOP / Business / Biz Stories
  • Taking the route of Libya, they arrived at Cyrene, and finally reached Athens Inarus, the author of the revolt, was betrayed, and perished on the cross, and the whole of Egypt once more succumbed to the Persian yoke, save only that portion called the marshy or fenny parts (under the dominion of a prince named Amyrtaeus), protected by the nature of the soil and the proverbial valour of the inhabitants. —  Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete
  • Thus the wild boy with the long, loose hair sits every day on a marshy island hid among the tall reeds. —  Old Indian Legends
 

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  1. from Middle English mershy, merschy; from marsh + -y.
 

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/ˈmɑrʃi/
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