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/ˈswɒmp/ · noun
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.).
Some small Marshes and Swamps there are, but more profitable than hurtfull.
The vast swamps of Southern Ontario proved a grim nightmare to the construction gangs. Treacherous and seemingly bottomless, the swamps swallowed thousands of tons of timber and debris, yet still afforded no firm surface on which the track could be laid.
We two...in this swamp of iniquity...together we can bring redress to an unjust world.
On InfoWars, Alex Jones told his audience, "This is over the top sickening. Next they'll say Jeffrey Epstein never even existed. This is the swamp winning. No one is buying this."
The boat was swamped in the storm.
I have been swamped with paperwork ever since they started using the new system.
"I'm being swamped now with calls from parents and young people who are upset that there are not many options for employment this summer," he said.
Mr. Spitzer’s defeat of his Democratic opponent […] ended a primary season in which Hillary Rodham Clinton swamped an antiwar challenger for renomination to the Senate.
Use swamp when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Swamp means 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.).
Common synonyms include flood, inundate, drench, deluge.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Some small Marshes and Swamps there are, but more profitable than hurtfull.
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