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swamp

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of swamp

1 to cover with a flood

  • the boat was swamped by the huge wave
  • has been swamped with paperwork since she returned from vacation
Synonyms of swamp

deluge, drown, engulf, flood, gulf, inundate, overflow, overwhelm, submerge, submerse
Words Related to swamp

avalanche, smother

overcome, overrun

flow, flush, gush, pour, sluice, spout, spurt, stream

douse (also dowse), drench, soak, wet
Near Antonyms of swamp

dehydrate, dry, parch
Antonyms of swamp

drain

2 to subject to incapacitating emotional or mental stress

  • parents feeling swamped by work and family obligations
Synonyms of swamp

crush, devastate, floor, grind (down), oppress, overcome, overmaster, overpower, overwhelm, prostrate, snow under, whelm
Words Related to swamp

deluge, drown, sink

confute, defeat, refute

break, demoralize, distress, disturb, rock, shatter, stagger, throw, unman, unnerve, upset

swamp

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of swamp

1 spongy land saturated or partially covered with water

  • be careful in the swamp, because alligators sometimes lurk there
Synonyms of swamp

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

swale

quagmire

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

2 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
Synonyms of swamp

bind, box, catch-22, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, impasse, jackpot [chiefly West], jam, mire, pickle, predicament, quagmire, rabbit hole, rattrap, spot, sticky wicket
Words Related to swamp

difficulty, node

hot water, soup

pinch, plight, quandary, scrape, trouble

deadlock, halt, logjam, stalemate, standstill

clutch, crisis, crossroad, emergency, exigency, juncture, strait
Phrases Synonymous with swamp

kettle of fish

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