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Swampy
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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| swamp (swɒmp) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a. Compare marsh permanently waterlogged ground that is usually overgrown and sometimes partly forested |
| b. (as modifier): swamp fever | |
| —vb | |
| 2. | to drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged |
| 3. | nautical to cause (a boat) to sink or fill with water or (of a boat) to sink or fill with water |
| 4. | to overburden or overwhelm or be overburdened or overwhelmed, as by excess work or great numbers: we have been swamped with applications |
| 5. | to sink or stick or cause to sink or stick in or as if in a swamp |
| 6. | (tr) to render helpless |
| [C17: probably from Middle Dutch somp; compare Middle High German sumpf, Old Norse svöppr sponge, Greek somphos spongy] | |
| 'swampish | |
| —adj | |
| 'swampless | |
| —adj | |
| 'swampy | |
| —adj | |
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