swamp /swomp/

1. A tract of wet, spongy (in the USA often tree-clad) land
2. Low waterlogged ground

1. To cause to sink or become stuck in a swamp (also figurative)
2. To cause (eg a boat) to fill with water
3. To overwhelm, inundate

To become swamped

1. Of, or of the nature of, swamp
2. Living or growing in swamps

swampˈer noun (US)

A person who lives or works in the swamps

swampˈiness noun

swampˈy adjective

swamp boat noun

A flat-bottomed boat with a raised aeroplane engine for travelling over swamps

swamp cypress noun

A deciduous conifer, Taxodium, of swamps in the southern USA

swamp fever noun

1. Leptospirosis
2. A viral disease of horses (also called equine infectious anaemia)
3. Malaria (US)

swamp gas noun

Marsh gas

swampˈland noun

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