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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A tract of low, soft, wet ground the drainage of which is insufficient either from its depressed situation or from its uniform flatness; a marsh; a swamp; a bog; a fen.
  2. n. Synonyms Swamp, etc. See marsh.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
  2. n. Anything that entraps or makes progress difficult.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot

Etymologies

  1. Dutch moeras, from Middle Dutch maras, from Old French mareis, probably of Germanic origin; see mori- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • tonya Something that hinders, engulfs, or overwhelms: a morass of detail. Aug 31, 2008

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