What is "swamp" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does swamp mean in English? Meaning of swamp definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "swamp" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "swamp": low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog

Noun

  • Meaning: low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
  • Synonyms: swamp swampland
  • Hyponyms: slough
  • Hypernyms: wetland
  • Instance Hyponyms: everglades okefenokee swamp
  • Meaning of "swamp": drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged

    Verb

  • Meaning: drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
  • Example: The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor
  • Synonyms: drench swamp
  • Hypernyms: flood
  • Meaning of "swamp": a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables

    Noun

  • Meaning: a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables
  • Example: he was trapped in a medical swamp
  • Synonyms: swamp
  • Hypernyms: situation
  • Meaning of "swamp": fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid

    Verb

  • Meaning: fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
  • Example: the basement was inundated after the storm The images flooded his mind
  • Synonyms: deluge flood inundate swamp
  • Hypernyms: fill fill up make full
  • Also see: flood in
  • Synonyms:

    mud, marshland, quagmire, morass, bog, fen, mire, glade, moor, marsh, slough, swampland, quag, muskeg, swale, bottoms, polder, everglade, holm, peat bog, drench, inundate, besiege, saturate, overload, beset, wash, drown, engulf, submerge, overflow, sink, satiate, surfeit, crowd, upset, snow, submerse, overcrowd, whelm, swallow up, waterlog,

    Antonyms:

    dry, float, pass up, underwhelm,

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    swamp in English: swamp
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