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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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