morass

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They had reached this point just before the rainy season when the waters of the morass were at their lowest ebb.

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  1. noun An area of low-lying, soggy ground.
  2. noun Something that hinders, engulfs, or overwhelms: a morass of details.

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  • All around the morass were the hoof-marks of his comrades, as if they had been watching him in his dying struggles, scampering round and round, perhaps with terror, or perhaps thinking how they might help him At all events," exclaimed Jerry, "we may say we hit a huge bull and left him as dead as mutton; and there's no great harm if the rest go back to look for him. —  A Voyage round the World A book for boys
  • She saw at last what had caused her two companions such wonder In a deep hole near the edge of the morass was a huge Hereford bull. —  Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies
  • From the left side, were heard the voices of birds, and Zbyszko was surprised at that, because it was time for the birds to migrate We are near a morass which is never frozen," whispered Jagienka; "the ducks pass the winter there; even in the lake the water freezes only near the shores. —  The Knights of the Cross or, Krzyzacy
  • I will not offend thee, my son, by being instant out of season--thou speakest but as thou art taught--yet sure I trust that so goodly a youth will be still rescued, like a brand from the burning While he thus spoke, the verge of the morass was attained, and their path lay on the declivity. —  The Monastery
  • They had reached this point just before the rainy season when the waters of the morass were at their lowest ebb. —  Tarzan the Terrible
 

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quagmire ·  bog ·  mire ·  swamp ·  fen ·  quicksand ·  lagoon ·  ravine ·  undergrowth ·  shoreline ·  chasm ·  moorland
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Dutch moeras, from Middle Dutch maras, from Old French mareis, probably of Germanic origin; see mori- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = German morast = Swedish morasDanish morads, from Dutch moeras, Middle Dutch moerasch, moorasch, maerasch = Low German Middle Low German moras, a marsh, fen; prob. orig. adjective, Middle Dutch *moerisch (= English moorish), belonging to a moor, confused apparently with F. marais, later Middle English mareis, etc., a marsh: see marish.
 

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