'Swamp' definitions:
Definition of 'swamp'
(from WordNet)
noun
Low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog [syn: swamp, swampland]
noun
A situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables; "he was trapped in a medical swamp"
verb
Drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged; "The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor" [syn: swamp, drench]
verb
Definition of 'Swamp'
From: GCIDE
- Swamp \Swamp\, n. [Cf. AS. swam a fungus, OD. swam a sponge, D. zwam a fungus, G. schwamm a sponge, Icel. sv["o]ppr, Dan. & Sw. swamp, Goth. swamms, Gr. somfo`s porous, spongy.] Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore. [1913 Webster]
- Gray swamps and pools, waste places of the hern. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- A swamp differs from a bog and a marsh in producing trees and shrubs, while the latter produce only herbage, plants, and mosses. --Farming Encyc. (E. Edwards, Words). [1913 Webster]
- Swamp blackbird. (Zool.) See Redwing (b) .
- Swamp cabbage (Bot.), skunk cabbage.
- Swamp deer (Zool.), an Asiatic deer (Rucervus Duvaucelli) of India.
- Swamp hen. (Zool.) (a) An Australian azure-breasted bird (Porphyrio bellus); -- called also goollema. (b) An Australian water crake, or rail (Porzana Tabuensis); -- called also little swamp hen. (c) The European purple gallinule.
- Swamp honeysuckle (Bot.), an American shrub ({Azalea viscosa} syn. Rhododendron viscosa or {Rhododendron viscosum}) growing in swampy places, with fragrant flowers of a white color, or white tinged with rose; -- called also swamp pink and white swamp honeysuckle.
- Swamp hook, a hook and chain used by lumbermen in handling logs. Cf. Cant hook.
- Swamp itch. (Med.) See Prairie itch, under Prairie.
- Swamp laurel (Bot.), a shrub (Kalmia glauca) having small leaves with the lower surface glaucous.
- Swamp maple (Bot.), red maple. See Maple.
- Swamp oak (Bot.), a name given to several kinds of oak which grow in swampy places, as swamp Spanish oak (Quercus palustris), swamp white oak ({Quercus bicolor}), swamp post oak (Quercus lyrata).
- Swamp ore (Min.), bog ore; limonite.
- Swamp partridge (Zool.), any one of several Australian game birds of the genera Synoicus and Excalfatoria, allied to the European partridges.
- Swamp robin (Zool.), the chewink.
- Swamp sassafras (Bot.), a small North American tree of the genus Magnolia (Magnolia glauca) with aromatic leaves and fragrant creamy-white blossoms; -- called also {sweet bay}.
- Swamp sparrow (Zool.), a common North American sparrow (Melospiza Georgiana, or Melospiza palustris), closely resembling the song sparrow. It lives in low, swampy places.
- Swamp willow. (Bot.) See Pussy willow, under Pussy. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Swamp'
From: GCIDE
- Swamp \Swamp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swamped; p. pr. & vb. n. Swamping.]
- 1. To plunge or sink into a swamp. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Naut.) To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck. [1913 Webster]
- The Whig majority of the house of Lords was swamped by the creation of twelve Tory peers. --J. R. Green. [1913 Webster]
- Having swamped himself in following the ignis fatuus of a theory. --Sir W. Hamilton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Swamp'
From: GCIDE
- Swamp \Swamp\, v. i.
- 1. To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'swamp'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- baygall,
- be prodigal with,
- bind,
- bog,
- bottom,
- bottomland,
- bottoms,
- buffalo wallow,
- cascade,
- cataract,
- cesspool,
- cloaca,
- cloaca maxima,
- clutch,
- complication,
- crunch,
- deluge,
- dip,
- drain,
- drown,
- duck,
- dump,
- dunk,
- embarrassing position,
- embarrassment,
- engulf,
- everglade,
- fen,
- fenland,
- fine how-do-you-do,
- float,
- flood,
- flood the market,
- flow on,
- founder,
- garbage dump,
- glade,
- hell to pay,
- hobble,
- hog wallow,
- holm,
- hot water,
- how-do-you-do,
- imbroglio,
- immerse,
- inundate,
- jam,
- marais,
- marish,
- marsh,
- marshland,
- meadow,
- mere,
- mess,
- mire,
- mix,
- moor,
- moorland,
- morass,
- moss,
- mud,
- mud flat,
- overbrim,
- overburden,
- overcome,
- overdose,
- overequip,
- overflow,
- overfurnish,
- overlavish,
- overload,
- overprovender,
- overprovide,
- overprovision,
- overrun,
- oversell,
- overstock,
- oversupply,
- overtax,
- overwhelm,
- parlous straits,
- pass,
- peat bog,
- pickle,
- pinch,
- plight,
- pour on,
- pour out,
- pour over,
- predicament,
- pretty pass,
- pretty pickle,
- pretty predicament,
- purgatory,
- quag,
- quagmire,
- quicksand,
- rain,
- run over,
- salt marsh,
- scrape,
- scuttle,
- septic tank,
- sewer,
- shaking,
- sink,
- slob land,
- slop,
- slosh,
- slough,
- sluice,
- snow under,
- sough,
- spill,
- spill out,
- spill over,
- spot,
- squeeze,
- stew,
- sticky wicket,
- strait,
- straits,
- submerge,
- sump,
- swale,
- swampland,
- sweep,
- taiga,
- tight spot,
- tight squeeze,
- tightrope,
- tricky spot,
- unholy mess,
- view,
- wallow,
- wash,
- whelm
Words containing 'Swamp'
- Swamped,
- Swamping,
- Swamp blackbird,
- Swamp cabbage,
- Swamp deer,
- Swamp hen,
- Swamp honeysuckle,
- Swamp hook,
- Swamp itch,
- Swamp laurel,
- Swamp maple,
- Swamp oak,
- Swamp ore,
- Swamp partridge,
- Swamp robin,
- Swamp sassafras,
- Swamp sparrow,
- Swamp willow,
- okefenokee swamp,
- swamp andromeda,
- swamp ash,
- swamp azalea,
- swamp bay,
- swamp birch,
- swamp blackberry,
- swamp blueberry,
- swamp buggy,
- swamp candleberry,
- swamp candles,
- swamp cottonwood,
- swamp cypress,
- swamp dewberry,
- swamp fever,
- swamp gum,
- swamp hare,
- swamp hickory,
- swamp horsetail,
- swamp lily,
- swamp locust,
- swamp mallow,
- swamp milkweed,
- swamp pine,
- swamp pink,
- swamp plant,
- swamp poplar,
- swamp rabbit,
- swamp sunflower,
- flooded inundated swamped,
- little swamp eagle,
- little swamp hen,
- mexican swamp cypress,
- mountain swamp gum,
- swamp chestnut oak,
- swamp fly honeysuckle,
- swamp red oak,
- swamp rose mallow,
- swamp white oak,
- white swamp honeysuckle