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Meaning of 'swamp' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Swamp [ n.]
- Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.
2 . Swamp [ v. i.]
- To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.
- To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.
3 . Swamp [ v. t.]
- To plunge or sink into a swamp.
- To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.
- Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.

Meaning of 'swamp' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . swamp [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables
Example in sentence:
  • he was trapped in a medical swamp
2 . swamp [ v]
Meaning (2):
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
Example in sentence:
  • the basement was inundated after the storm;
  • The images flooded his mind
Meaning (3):
- drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
Example in sentence:
  • The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor

Nearby Words:

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