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as in marshes
spongy land saturated or partially covered with water
be careful in the swamp, because alligators sometimes lurk there
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as in pickles
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
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as in floods
to cover with a flood
the boat was swamped by the huge wave has been swamped with paperwork since she returned from vacation
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as in overwhelms
to subject to incapacitating emotional or mental stress
parents feeling swamped by work and family obligations
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Recent Examples of swamps
Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Oct. 2025
The land was also covered by swamps and ponds, where animals lived, including deer, ducks and hogs.
—Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
These mammals are found across North America, residing in every kind of habitat from hardwood forests to coastal plains to swamps.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2025
As their name suggests, annual killifish appear for a brief period of the year in floodplains, wetlands, swamps and other temporary aquatic environments.
—Lauren Liebhaber
september 23, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
Cottonmouths can be found in aquatic and wetland areas like swamps, marshes, drainage ditches, ponds, lakes and streams.
—Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 18 Sep. 2025
Far from the equatorial lowlands where these swamps formed, polar glaciers steadily marched on the midlatitudes and threatened to take over the entire planet.
—Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
On the coast, there is a swampy coastal plain with mangrove swamps.
—Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Wood storks are North America’s only native stork and usually like living in southern swamps, according to the National Audubon Society.
—Katie Langford, Denver Post, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
The agency said rising water levels in rivers, gullies and swamps may push the reptiles into residential areas in search of dry ground.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Oct. 2025
The land was also covered by swamps and ponds, where animals lived, including deer, ducks and hogs.
—Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
These mammals are found across North America, residing in every kind of habitat from hardwood forests to coastal plains to swamps.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2025
As their name suggests, annual killifish appear for a brief period of the year in floodplains, wetlands, swamps and other temporary aquatic environments.
—Lauren Liebhaber
september 23, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
Cottonmouths can be found in aquatic and wetland areas like swamps, marshes, drainage ditches, ponds, lakes and streams.
—Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 18 Sep. 2025
Far from the equatorial lowlands where these swamps formed, polar glaciers steadily marched on the midlatitudes and threatened to take over the entire planet.
—Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
On the coast, there is a swampy coastal plain with mangrove swamps.
—Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Wood storks are North America’s only native stork and usually like living in southern swamps, according to the National Audubon Society.
—Katie Langford, Denver Post, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swamps
Noun
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Those windmills stood on mud and marshes amid samphire and pink thrift flowers, the only warm glow around our house.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
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Then look to the beach to spot shorebirds such as seagulls and pelicans, while the marshes on the island’s backside are frequented by herons, egrets, and ibis.—
Kristy Christiansen,
Southern Living,
31 Dec. 2025
Noun
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To get the Benny Blanco drink, customers could add cherry flavor and pickles.—
Taylor Ardrey,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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Then she’s trapped by aisles on all sides, boxed in by shelf after shelf of pickles.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
3 Nov. 2025
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Shauna Bell, who lives along Van Buren, said the nearby stormwater drain is constantly clogged from highway debris, which floods her yard.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
24 Oct. 2025
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What To Know One of the most dangerous threats for Southern California will be the risk of debris flow as the rain floods recent burn scars, including the Eaton Scar and Bridge Scar.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Over such spans, change overwhelms continuity; too much simply disappears.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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This figure motivates Butrich but also overwhelms her.—
Sabrina Weiss,
The Dial,
23 Sep. 2025
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But elevation changes and wetlands on the property mean extra hurdles.—
Olivia Stevens,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Jan. 2026
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The alternative would run by about 886 acres of wetlands.—
Claudia Levens,
jsonline.com,
30 Dec. 2025
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Pakistan Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad said his nation was hoping for more of a consensus going into Tuesday’s vote given the funding predicaments and operational issues that have dogged the MSS.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
30 Sep. 2025
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Is River in desperate need of some R&R, or is everyone else projecting their own predicaments onto him?—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
24 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Americans are used to thinking about automation as something that devastates factory towns in the heartland.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2025
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The novel is about three teenagers experiencing the joy and angst of their senior year in a New York City high school as the AIDS crisis devastates their community.—
Abdi Nazemian,
PEOPLE,
22 Sep. 2025
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Readers send Miss Manners not only their table and party questions, but those involving the more complicated aspects of life - romance, work, family relationships, child-rearing, death - as well as philosophical and moral dilemmas.—
Judith Martin,
Dallas Morning News,
6 Jan. 2026
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The following is a breakdown of those questions and others, and the key personnel dilemmas that remain unsolved as the World Cup nears.—
Paul Tenorio,
New York Times,
5 Jan. 2026
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“Swamps.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swamps. Accessed 8 Jan. 2026.
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