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noun
1.
a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation.
verb (used with object)
2.
to flood or drench with water or the like.
3.
Nautical. to sink or fill (a boat) with water.
4.
to plunge or cause to sink in or as if in a swamp.
5.
to overwhelm, especially to overwhelm with an excess of something: He swamped us with work.
6.
EXPANDto render helpless.
7.
to remove trees and underbrush from (a specific area), especially to make or cleave a trail (often followed by out).
8.
COLLAPSEto trim (felled trees) into logs, as at a logging camp or sawmill.
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Swamped
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
verb (used without object)
9.
to fill with water and sink, as a boat.
10.
to sink or be stuck in a swamp or something likened to a swamp.
11.
to be plunged into or overwhelmed with something, especially something that keeps one busy, worried, etc.
Origin:
1615–25; < Dutch zwamp creek, fen; akin to sump and to Middle Low German swamp, Old Norse svǫppr sponge
1615–25; < Dutch zwamp creek, fen; akin to sump and to Middle Low German swamp, Old Norse svǫppr sponge
Related forms
swamp·ish, adjective
un·der·swamp, noun
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Word Origin & History
swamp
1624 (first used by Capt. John Smith, in reference to Virginia), perhaps a dial. survival from an O.E. cognate of O.N. svoppr "sponge, fungus," from P.Gmc. *swampuz; but traditionally connected with M.E. sompe "morass, swamp," probably from M.Du. somp or M.L.G. sump "swamp." Related to O.N. svöppr
EXPAND"sponge." The verb sense of "overwhelm, sink (as if in a swamp)" is first recorded 1772; fig. sense is from 1818. Swamp Yankee "rural, rustic New Englander" is attested from 1941.
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swamp  (swŏmp) Pronunciation Key
An area of low-lying wet or seasonally flooded land, often having trees and dense shrubs or thickets. |
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