swamp

IPA: swˈɑmp

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.

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.

Examples of "swamp" in Sentences

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!