[
US
/ˈswɑmp, ˈswɔmp/
]
[ UK /swˈɒmp/ ]
[ UK /swˈɒmp/ ]
NOUN
- low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
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a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables
he was trapped in a medical swamp
VERB
-
fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
the basement was inundated after the storm
The images flooded his mind -
drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor
How To Use swamp In A Sentence
- And its world was a narrow swamp, a grey, nubiferous environment, where it lived its contented, active, idyllic, almost mindless existence. The Voyage of the Space Beagle
- Clear information boards indicate the location of different types of trees which include Persian, Japanese and black walnut trees, coastal and dawn redwoods, cedar of Lebanon, atlas and deodar cedars, and swamp cypresses.
- Rubiochico,) "which was fast swamping the sparkling stars, like a bright river flowing over diamonds, when the old gander again set up his gabblement and trumpeted more loudly than before. Tom Cringle's Log
- There are high precipices that are backed by the papyrus and ambatch swamps that form the delta of the Kagera River.
- With names such as Codex Sinaiticus, the Macregol Gospels and the Valenciennes Apocalypse, they evoke lost empires and ancient monasteries as surely as archaeopteryx and ceratosaurus conjure up primeval swamps and forests. GetReligion
- How much do you know about the South: the forests of the southern Appalachians, the swamps and bayous, the barrier islands, keys, and coral reefs?
- front-page "ahed" today-a first-hand, real-time look at the layoffs that are swamping the economy. CJR
- Hiding out in or near steamy rivers and swamps in South America east of the Andes from Colombia to Paraguay and also on the island of Trinidad, these semiaquatic serpents are the largest snakes in the world.
- Scenes of milking, slaughtering and butchering cattle, and hunting wild cattle in swamps are also shown.
- And unlike the previous use of archaic folk tunes, Cajun stomps and swamp water boogies just don't have the same traditionalist staying power.