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swamp English

Meaning swamp meaning

What does swamp mean?
Definitions in simple English

swamp Noun

— A swamp is an area where most of the land is underwater. Land in a swamp is not usually more than a meter (or a few feet) under water. The swamp is home to many animals, including alligators, frogs, and birds. U.S. state of Louisiana is famous for its swamps.

swamp Verb

— If something is swamped it is being covered of filled with water. The deck of our boat was swamped by the storm. — If something is swamped is has gotten more of something than it can work with. Our office was swamped with phone calls. The store was swamped with customers last night. That many downloads would swamp our computers.

swamp

— noun low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog — verb (= drench) drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor — verb (= flood, inundate) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid the basement was inundated after the storm The images flooded his mind — noun a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables he was trapped in a medical swamp

Synonyms swamp synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as swamp?

swamp English » English

marsh bog morass fen quagmire wetland mire marshland flood inundate pond overwhelm lake swampland submerge slough quag wetlands mud moor drench deluge wallaby swale sink pool peatland low heath engulf bayou Moor waterlog watering place water thicket swampy ground swamped ground swamp land swamp hickory submersion submergence small lake slash shallow water reservoir reeds puddle plunge overload

Topics swamp topics

What do people use swamp to talk about?
Universe, creation Water Bodies of water

Swamp
Universe, creation Water

Wet

Conjugation swamp conjugation

How do you conjugate swamp?

swamp · verb

Examples swamp examples

How do I use swamp in a sentence?

Simple sentences

He lives alone in a small cabin in the swamp.
Tom's body was found in the swamp.
Yoda, the wise Jedi master, first appeared in the swamp as a crazy frog.
The plague came from the swamp.

Movie subtitles

That's a swamp.
The swamp where he caught the others.
Swamp or no swamp, we can keep ahead of him that long.
Today we work together. in the swamp.
We work in the swamp.
Driving his cattle into the swamp and refused to billet. Isn't he one of the scum that whipped me?
Wipe your feet, you old tree stump rotting in a swamp!
I think peas are not sown in the swamp.
Dog-darn this dad-blame swamp.
Smells like Swahili swamp.
That old swamp cat with a cabin full of dried lizards and stuffed toads?
Remember the old drainage flume near the edge of the swamp?
She said something about a swamp with a drainage tunnel.
The Mitidja is a rotten swamp!
It's nothing but a swamp, you know.
The swamp will cover our tracks and it's the right direction, as far as I can judge.
We're escaping through the cave where the swamp makes smoke.
A swamp!
A swamp! - Go on! - Don't bother about them!
Swamp!
Swamp! Opera glasses, Sir?
You look as low as a swamp, dear. What's up?
It is perhaps the swamp, but we each pay the same tribute.
He turned me into a frog and sent to live in a swamp for three years.
If you don't mind my mentioning it, Father, I think you have a mind like a swamp.
Don't show whether there's mountain, swamp or desert.
We had to return them to their swamp.
There are too many guns around this swamp.
He took us through that swamp intentionally.
If you don't pull me out of this swamp of boredom, I'm gonna do something drastic.
Sit down or you'll swamp the boat.
You always got business in the swamp, but you won't never tell me what it is.

News and current affairs

For decades, major oil companies, including Shell, ExxonMobil, and Chevron, have been producing oil in the Niger Delta, an ecologically fragile environment of freshwater swamp forests, mangroves, lowland rainforests, and coastal barrier islands.
For example, a large, modern tank army is a powerful resource if a war is fought in a desert, but not if it is fought in a swamp - as America discovered in Vietnam.
With so much at stake, it makes sense to place sentinels near every swamp, city, public market, and farmyard on earth.
Similarly, loss of wetlands threatened New Orleans' levees, which were built on the assumption that they would have 40 to 50 miles of protective swamp as buffer between the city and the Gulf of Mexico.
The Nakivubo Swamp is an excellent example of the need for careful valuation of the environment.
The swamp is close to the city center and its industrial center, and there is a land shortage in Kampala.
The Nakivubo Swamp is not a case of economic logic prevailing, but exactly the opposite - a failure to consider all options and choose the best.
Much of lower Manhattan would still be a swamp, rather than being turned into the powerhouse of New York City, at a huge cost to society.
A spiralling AIDS epidemic could swamp the whole society.
The word stagnation suggests a swamp, implying a breeding ground for virulent dangers.
While the American economy gets dragged down further in a swamp of bad property debts, China will continue to boom.
How can we drain the public-policy swamp?
This is also a huge potential problem with the TPP, because competitive devaluations can swamp any other gains from trade by an order of magnitude, with substantial negative effects on US jobs.

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