Swamp

Quick meaning: Swamp is a noun meaning (figurative) A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.

Meaning

(figurative) A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.

More Meanings

1. To drench or fill with water.
2. (figurative) To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
3. (figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
4. (Appalachia) To clear (a road or an area) of brush, particularly so as to create a path for loggers to be able to access trees.
5. (US, politics) The alleged corruption, cronyism, inefficiency, and entrenched interests in the federal government, especially in Washington, DC.
6. An area of wet (water-saturated), spongy (soft) land, often with trees, generally a rich ecosystem for certain plants and animals but ill-suited for many agricultural purposes. (A type of wetland. Compare marsh, bog, fen.)

Example Sentences

The boat was swamped in the storm.

Some small Marshes and Swamps there are, but more profitable than hurtfull.

I have been swamped with paperwork ever since they started using the new system.

We two...in this swamp of iniquity...together we can bring redress to an unjust world.

Word Forms

• swamps
• swamping
• swamped

Synonyms for swamp

Depending on context, synonyms include flood, inundate, drench, deluge.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include flood, deluge, inundate, drench, wetland, fen.

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