swamp

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  1. noun A seasonally flooded bottomland with more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog.
  2. noun A lowland region saturated with water.
  3. noun A situation or place fraught with difficulties and imponderables: a financial swamp.
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  • I had known the swamp was a harsh mistress, but I had never suspected the true depth of her cruelty. —  Wit'ch's Storm
  • Without a lantern, the swamp was a black cave around them. —  Wit'ch's Storm
  • Hawkins backed it out, the stern overturning a tree in the process; and then realizing that the swamp was a little dangerous for windows he brought the prolo straight up a thousand feet. —  Wonder Stories Quarterly Summer 1932
  • He focused on the wilderness that had been his salvation, never turning his head to catch the bright flash of yellow on the gallery of Chanson du Terre CHAPTER 4 THE FIRST THING THAT ALWAYS STRUCK SERENA about the swamp was the vastness of it. —  TAMI HOAG
  • The middle of a swamp is an unusual place to find a fire-witch Brandel sighed. —  Calling on Dragons
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marsh ·  jungle ·  forest ·  thicket ·  valley ·  meadow ·  lake ·  creek ·  pond ·  ravine ·  bog ·  cave

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swamp:   swamps ·  swamping ·  swamped
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  1. Perhaps of Low German origin .

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  1. Formerly also swomp; not found in early use; prob. a dial. variant or more orig. form of (a) sump = Dutch somp = Middle High German G. sumpf (also Old High German sumpft) = Swedish Danish sump, a swamp; related to (b) Anglo-Saxon swam, swamn = Middle Low German swam, swamp = Old High German swam (swamb-), Middle High German swam, swamp (swamb-), German schwamm = Icelandic svöppr (for *svampr) = Danish Swedish svamp, a fungus, sponge, = Gothic (Moesogothic) swamms, a sponge; (c) cf. Gothic (Moesogothic) swumsl, a ditch; (d) cf. also English dial. swank, swang, a swamp; akin to Greek σομφός, spongy, σπόγγος, sponge, Latin fungus, fungus: see fungus and sponge. Not connected with swim.
  2. from swamp, n.
  3. Cf. swank.
 

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