Definition of swamp
1 : a wetland often partially or intermittently covered with water; especially : one dominated by woody vegetation
2 : a tract of swamp
3 : a difficult or troublesome situation or subject
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Examples of swamp in a Sentence
Alligators live in the lowland swamps.
be careful in the swamp, because alligators sometimes lurk there
Recent Examples of swamp from the Web
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Inside was a glimpse of what this part of the world looked like 306 million years and more than three mass extinctions ago, when this part of the world was a tidal swamp.
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As the first plantation downriver from the Marigny Plantation, the Brasserie occupied the land that today lies between Franklin Avenue and Press Street and between the river to the edge of what was then the nearby swamp.
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Plan has seen families in Sudan flee their homes and resort to hiding in swamps, surviving on only water lilies.
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The bog itself is surrounded by a dense shrub-carr swamp thicket that has to be penetrated.
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For 60 years, members of the Willow Aces deer camp have come to this same slice of Oneida County cedar swamp, riverbed marsh and wooded ridges.
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And fingers crossed he’ll be forced to take his shirt off to help with an injury or swim in the swamp to save a turtle or something.
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The flat postglacial geography of the sluggish Chicago River and its adjacent swamps marked the narrow southwestern edge of the Great Lakes watershed, the perfect spot for a canal to connect the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River watershed.
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And, crucially, what was the public-relations fire-swamp doing to Uber’s $70 billion valuation?
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Origin and Etymology of swamp
perhaps alteration of Middle English sompe, from Middle Dutch somp morass; akin to Middle High German sumpf marsh, Greek somphos spongy
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Examples of swamp in a Sentence
The sea level rose and swamped the coastal villages.
The boat sank after it was swamped by waves.
Recent Examples of swamp from the Web
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And immediately the place would be swamped by needless controversies, tangled lines of authority, and policy confusion.
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At 8:55, two number 70 buses arrived at the same time and both were swamped with people carrying the black backpack — too many to count, both buses packed to the gills.
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Boaters talk of buying bigger craft just to stay afloat — going to a 28-footer from a 22-footer to avoid getting swamped by the 50-footer that replaced a 40-footer.
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But soon after Buffett took it over, the company was swamped by a tide of cheap imports, forcing it to shutter its U.S. plants.
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The lesson seems lost on Mayor Kevin Faulconer, whose efforts to carry water for SoccerCity developers and the downtown hotel industry may swamp his political future, with no old sorcerer returning to save the day.
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An informational meeting about water pollution in Washington County was swamped with questions for state officials Tuesday evening.
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That combination swamped a shrunken core of CPS workers with impossible caseloads.
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Rising sea levels could swamp low-lying cities and farmland.
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First Known Use of swamp
1784
SWAMP Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of swamp for English Language Learners
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: land that is always wet and often partly covered with water
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Definition of swamp for English Language Learners
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: to cover (something) with water
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: to cause (someone or something) to have to deal with a very large amount of things or people at the same time
SWAMP Defined for Kids
Definition of swamp for Students
: wet spongy land often partly covered with water
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