SWAMP
\swˈɒmp], \swˈɒmp], \s_w_ˈɒ_m_p]\
Definitions of SWAMP
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"
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low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
By Princeton University
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fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"
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low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.
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To plunge or sink into a swamp.
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To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.
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Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
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To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.
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To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.
By Oddity Software
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Wet or spongy land; soft low land soaked with water; marshy land.
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To plunge, or sink, into marshy land; cause to fill, or to sink by filling, with water; as, to swamp a boat; to overwhelm.
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To fill with water and sink; to stick or sink in marshy land; be over whelmed or ruined by difficulties.
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Swampy.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
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Wet, spongy land: low ground filled with water.
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To sink in, or as in a swamp: to overset, or cause to fill with water, as a boat.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman