SWAMPS Synonyms: 120 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of swamp

as in marshes

spongy land saturated or partially covered with water be careful in the swamp, because alligators sometimes lurk there

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as in pickles

a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape with her credit cards maxed out, and the making of minimum payments a challenge, debt seemed to be an ever-deepening swamp

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swamps

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verb

present tense third-person singular of swamp

as in floods

to cover with a flood the boat was swamped by the huge wave has been swamped with paperwork since she returned from vacation

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as in overwhelms

to subject to incapacitating emotional or mental stress parents feeling swamped by work and family obligations

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Noun

During the sixth century, France’s Merovingian kings looked from the island across what were still marshes and fields on the Left Bank toward the Church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2024
The group ventured along the South Platte River through open fields and deciduous woodland, near ponds and marshes.

Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post, 3 Dec. 2024

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