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Definition of 'swamp'English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)
Noun
( wikipedia)
( en-noun)
A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.
A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures who have adapted specifically to that environment.
Derived terms
* swamp gum
* swampland
* swamp wallaby
* swampy
See also
* bog
* marsh
* moor
Verb
( en-verb)
To drench or fill with water.
- The boat was swamped in the storm.
To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
- I have been swamped with paperwork ever since they started using the new system.
* 2006 , New York Times ,
- Mr. Spitzer’s defeat of his Democratic opponent ... ended a primary season in which Hillary Rodham Clinton swamped an antiwar challenger for renomination to the Senate.
(figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
* J. R. Green
- The Whig majority of the house of Lords was swamped by the creation of twelve Tory peers.
* W. Hamilton
- Having swamped himself in following the ignis fatuus of a theory
Similar to 'swamp'sunup, skimp, snap, simp, scamp, sump, snoop, snip, samp, sneap, shmup, skymap, sannup, swomp, sannop
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