swamp
IPA: swˈɑmp
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 which have adapted specifically to that environment.
- (figurative) A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.
verb
- To drench or fill with water.
- (figurative) To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
- (figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
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Examples of "swamp" in Sentences
- There is a fetid fever swamp.
- Most live on the fringes of the swamp.
- The lower part of the valley is swamp.
- The marshes of the park recede in swamps.
- He is known to scavenge the swamps for fun and profit.
- The eastern part of the Montezuma Swamp is in the town.
- Fireflies congregate at the Berembang trees in the swamp.
- The crusaders reach the southern swamp of the Frisches Haff.
- Because of the unrest in Tibet, the Tibet editors are swamped.
- It overlooks the lower fields of the farm and the Zekiah Swamp.
- A swamp is an accommodating environment for the deaf and arrogant.
- Boreal forrest on flat land or a Florida swamp is a bad place to be if you don't know how to find your way around in the woods.
- We came out on the other side into a narrow strip of forest that separated the blueberry swamp from the great swamp that extended westward.
- 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.
- The author describes the use of specific terms and the problems associated with them, beginning with the word swamp, which is followed by creek, folly, tump, and gurnet.
- To do that Kappe's team is taking various routes -- most of which involve breeding large numbers of these dangerous animals in warm, soupy trays in what he calls the "swamp room."
- But volunteer Ed Mendel believes they were not able to go where he can on what he calls swamp thing, a vehicle designed for hunting pigs and deer in the Everglades and modified for rescue work.
- To improve upon nature by draining a malarial swamp is permitted him; to improve upon nature's methods and breed swifter carrier-pigeons and finer horses than she has ever bred is also permitted; but to improve upon nature in the breeding of the human, that is a sacrilege which cannot be condoned!