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moor

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of moor

1 a broad area of level or rolling treeless country
  • as she wanders the windswept moor, the novel's heroine vows that she will never marry the vicar
Synonyms of moor

campo, champaign, down(s), grassland, heath, lea (or ley), llano, pampa, plain, prairie, savanna (also savannah), steppe, tundra, veld (or veldt)
Words Related to moor

field, meadow

floodplain

bottom, bottomland, flat, lowland

plateau, table, tableland, upland
2 spongy land saturated or partially covered with water
  • a mysterious figure who was said to have haunted the moors of southwest England
Synonyms of moor

bog, fen, marsh, marshland, mire, morass, muskeg, slough (also slew), swamp, swampland, wash, wetland
Words Related to moor

swale

quagmire

guck (or gook), muck, mud, ooze, slime, slop, sludge, slush

moor

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of moor

to put securely in place or in a desired position
  • moored the boat to the dock
Synonyms of moor

anchor, catch, clamp, fasten, fix, hitch, secure, set
Words Related to moor

embed (also imbed), entrench (also intrench), implant, ingrain (also engrain), lodge, stuff, wedge
Near Antonyms of moor

extract, prize, pry, pull, root (out), tear (out), uproot, wrest, yank
Antonyms of moor

loose, loosen, unfasten, unfix, unloose, unloosen

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