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noun. An area of low-lying land that is frequently flooded, especially one dominated by woody plants.

noun. A lowland region saturated with water.

noun. A situation or place fraught with difficulties and imponderables.

intransitive verb. To drench in or cover with or as if with water.

intransitive verb. To inundate or burden; overwhelm.

intransitive verb. To fill (a ship or boat) with water to the point of sinking it.

intransitive verb. To become full of water or sink.

Thin; slender; lean.

To plunge, whelm, or sink in a swamp, or as in a swamp.

To plunge into inextricable difficulties; overwhelm; ruin; hence, to outbalance; exceed largely in numbers.

Nautical, to overset, sink, or cause to become filled, as a boat, in water; whelm.

To cut out (a road) into a forest. See swamper.

To sink or stick in a swamp; hence, to be plunged in inextricable difficulties.

To become filled with water and sink, as a boat; founder; hence, to be ruined; be wrecked.

In lumbering, to clear (the ground) of under-brush, fallen trees, and other obstructions preparatory to constructing a logging-road or opening out a gutter-road.

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.

noun. In coal-mining, a local depression in a coal-bed, in which water may collect.

noun. A shallow lake.

transitive verb. To plunge or sink into a swamp.

transitive verb. To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.

transitive verb. Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.

noun. Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.

noun. See Redwing (b).

noun. skunk cabbage.

noun. an Asiatic deer (Rucervus Duvaucelli) of India.

noun. The European purple gallinule.

noun. an American shrub (Azalea viscosa syn. Rhododendron viscosa or Rhododendron viscosum) growing in swampy places, with fragrant flowers of a white color, or white tinged with rose; -- called also swamp pink and white swamp honeysuckle.

noun. a hook and chain used by lumbermen in handling logs. Cf. Cant hook.

noun. See Prairie itch, under Prairie.

noun. a shrub (Kalmia glauca) having small leaves with the lower surface glaucous.

noun. red maple. See Maple.

noun. a name given to several kinds of oak which grow in swampy places, as swamp Spanish oak (Quercus palustris), swamp white oak (Q. bicolor), swamp post oak (Q. lyrata).

noun. (Min.), bog ore; limonite.

noun. any one of several Australian game birds of the genera Synoicus and Excalfatoria, allied to the European partridges.

noun. the chewink.

noun. a small North American tree of the genus Magnolia (M. glauca) with aromatic leaves and fragrant creamy-white blossoms; -- called also sweet bay.

noun. a common North American sparrow (Melospiza Georgiana, or M. palustris), closely resembling the song sparrow. It lives in low, swampy places.

noun. See Pussy willow, under Pussy.

intransitive verb. To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.

intransitive verb. To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.

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.

noun. A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures who have adapted specifically to that environment.

verb. To drench or fill with water.

verb. To overwhelm; to make too busy or overrun capacity.

noun. a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables

noun. low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog

verb. fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid

verb. drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged

"It was legendary producer Jerry Wexler who coined the phrase "swamp" to describe the music coming out of studios in Macon, Ga., and Muscle Shoals, Ala."

black-gum swamp  bog  juniper swamp  marsh  moor  

swamp gum  swamp wallaby  swampland  swampy  

fill  fill up  flood  make full  situation  

Duchamp  chomp  comp  pomp  romp  

bog  cave  cliff  creek  ditch  

baygall  be prodigal with  bind  bog  bottom  

swamped  swamping  swamps