A wetland often partially or intermittently covered with water especially one dominated by woody vegetation.
full 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 swamp adjective wikipedia swamp plural swamps a piece of wet spongy land low ground saturated with water soft wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes swamp noun c or u an area of very wet soft land an alligator infested swamp the everglades are an area of swamp in southern florida synonyms they usually breed in marshes and brushy swamps with some open water dense low vegetation and perches for singing the area of low lying swamp or marsh as revealed through archaeology is shown in brown more swamp is first found in the compound swampwater and probably goes back to a germanic root with the senses sponge fungus sump middle english is probably related as it is first found with the meaning swamp swamp verb too much big t often passive if something swamps a person system or place more of it arrives than can be easily deal with foreign cars have swamped the uk market i m swamped with work at the moment don t let feelings of depression swamp you nautical to cause a boat to sink or fill with water or of a boat to sink or fill with water to overburden or overwhelm or be overburdened or overwhelmed as by excess work or great numbers we have been swamped with applications to sink or stick or cause to sink or stick in or as if in a swamp 1 1 no object of a boat become overwhelmed with water and sink the life boat somehow did not swamp but made it to shore more example sentences a speed boat had become swamped and was sinking the first time the boat swamped with water and they had to race back to dry land along lincoln avenue to bail the water
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