Swamp is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SWAMP in dictionary:

VERB:
• to inundate
• overwhelm or flood with water
• (of a boat) become overwhelmed with water and sink
• overwhelm with an excessive amount of something; inundate
• To plunge or sink into a swamp.
• To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.
• Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
• To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.
• To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.
• drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
• fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
• cause (a boat) to fill with water and sink
NOUN:
• an area of low-lying, uncultivated ground where water collects; a bog or marsh.
• an area of waterlogged ground
• watery area of land, bog
• Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.
• low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
• a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables

Words related to SWAMP

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Words that contain SWAMP

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How to use SWAMP in a sentence

• For now they found themselves in a swamp, where they waded for two hours up to their waists in water.
• In Hampshire, in Devon, and Cornwall, and in the southwest of Ireland, the King-fern too is a true swamp fern.
• He might sell a million copies of his paper, but he would create an enmity which in the end, I think, would swamp him.
• Then he began to realize that with the abundance of food in the swamp, flesh-hunters would not come on the trail and attack him, and he had his revolver for defence if they did.
• He had seen some owls and hawks of the swamp that he thought might be classed as large birds, but never anything like this, for six feet it spread its big, shining wings.
• The situation of Sardis is very beautiful, but the country over which it looks is almost deserted, and the valley is become a swamp.
• Their captain, after valiant fighting, broke through the savages, and got into a swamp near by.
• The swamp covers twenty-five thousand acres, and adjoining it are many rich farm lands and valuable buildings.
• By the help of my arm Uncle Moses managed to struggle along, and after about a quarter of an hour we came to the edge of the swamp.
• We might have landed our cargo where we were lying, but it would have been landed in a dismal swamp, and we should have been obliged to go into Wilmington for our cargo of cotton.
• Early the next morning I winked toward the swamp, and jerked my thumb over my shoulder.
• Roger studied the tracks leading into the swamp and saw that several of them had been made on the run.
• The cry of the lone screech-owl below me in the swamp sounded but familiar and appropriate.
• I crept forward through the swamp, converging toward the road.
• What I have narrated had not taken five minutes, for the pits were not more than a hundred yards from the edge of the swamp.
• Again she followed the trail to the swamp, rearranged her hair and left the tin pail.
• Comstock was probably awake, and that she sometimes went to the swamp behind her home at night.
• It is curious, I think, that these creatures should come fifteen miles from the sea to enliven the waters round our little rice swamp.
• Once out of hearing she threw away her hat and bending forward ran through the swamp.
• The lands upon the banks of this stream are remarkably fertile, entirely alluvial, and decline from the bank to the swamp, generally some one or two miles distant.

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