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swamp⋅y

  [swom-pee]
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–adjective, swamp⋅i⋅er, swamp⋅i⋅est.
1. of the nature of, resembling, or abounding in swamps.
2. found in swamps.
Origin:
1640–50; swamp + -y 1

Related forms:
swamp⋅i⋅ness, noun
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swamp   (swŏmp, swômp)   
n.  

    1. A seasonally flooded bottomland with more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog.

    2. A lowland region saturated with water.

  2. A situation or place fraught with difficulties and imponderables: a financial swamp.

v.   swamped, swamp·ing, swamps

v.   tr.

  1. To drench in or cover with or as if with water.

  2. To inundate or burden; overwhelm: She was swamped with work.

  3. Nautical To fill (a ship or boat) with water to the point of sinking it.

v.   intr.
To become full of water or sink.

[Perhaps of Low German origin .]
swamp'i·ness n., swamp'y adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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