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[ muh-ras ] / məˈræs / SEE SYNONYMS FOR morass ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna tract of low, soft, wet ground. a marsh or bog. marshy ground. any confusing or troublesome situation, especially one from which it is difficult to free oneself; entanglement. Origin of morass1645–55; <Dutch moeras, alteration (by association with moer marsh; cf. moor 1) of Middle Dutch maras<Old French mareis<Germanic. See marsh Words nearby morassmoral support, moral theology, moral turpitude, Morandi, Morar, morass, moratorium, moratory, Moratuwa, Morava, Moravia Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for morassCompanies fear that by adopting it they may be inadvertently stepping into an ethical, reputational or regulatory morass. Which A.I. planet do you live on?|Jeremy Kahn|October 6, 2020|Fortune These groups tend to push for a “one-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian morass. Why Zionists Should Be Surprised—Even Heartened—By the United Church of Canada's Boycott|Mira Sucharov|December 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST She took up the miserable chore of attending dodgy networking events, but out of that morass came the character of Tallah. Meet the Female Borat, British Comedienne Mona Yousefi|Kevin Fallon|July 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST The facts on the ground are anything but auspicious for America injecting itself into an intra-Arab morass. Obama’s Syrian “Red Line” Could Return Us To The Mistakes of Iraq|Lloyd Green|May 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The facts on the ground are anything but auspicious for America injecting itself into an intra-Arab morass, writes Lloyd Green. Obama’s Syrian “Red Line” Could Return Us To The Mistakes of Iraq|Lloyd Green|May 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is not about digging into the morass of deep dark secrets of the soul. ‘LA Shrinks’: A Television Writer Discovers His Shrink Is on a Bravo Reality Show|Mike Chessler|April 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST It was surrounded by a morass, and approachable only by two narrow causeways. The Huguenots in France|Samuel Smiles. The knight, annoyed by this love and the shame thereof, threw away the stone into a morass. Women of the Teutonic Nations|Hermann Schoenfeld Yet out of this morass of misbegotten virtues I plucked my first blossom of genuine affection. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6)|Havelock Ellis One of them, when he had gone about a quarter of a mile, was heard to shout that he was fast in the morass. At the Point of the Bayonet|G. A. Henty They were three days floundering through this dismal slough, the horses being most of the time up to their girths in the morass. Hernando Cortez|John S. C. Abbott
British Dictionary definitions for morass
nouna tract of swampy low-lying land a disordered or muddled situation or circumstance, esp one that impedes progress Word Origin for morassC17: from Dutch moeras, ultimately from Old French marais marsh Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to morasstangle, chaos, quagmire, labyrinth, web, jam, fen, confusion, muddle, swamp, snarl, mesh, marsh, jungle, knot, maze, mix-up, skein |