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Definition of swamp in English: swampnoun swɒmpswɑmp 1An area of low-lying, uncultivated ground where water collects; a bog or marsh. Example sentencesExamples - Yet too many of the bottom lands, swamps, and marshes that drew me back no longer exist.
- From seven in the morning till one in the afternoon we were marching, running, charging across hill and dale, through the swamps and the marshes, down on the ground, up again, and so on.
- These birds require shallow water habitats for feeding such as streams, ponds, lakes, marshes, swamps, wetlands, and flooded fields.
- Visit ponds, swamps, fragile marshes, and pretty beaches along the Chesapeake, or fish the area's many streams and rivers.
- The area of low-lying swamp or marsh, as revealed through archaeology, is shown in brown.
- Little swamp marsh islands dotted the river between the two hills.
- The draining of the marsh Arabs' swamps and the forcing of them into Basra slums were planned out in those buildings.
- In the seventeenth century rice was grown on dry land, but in the next century it was chiefly grown in freshwater inland swamps or in lowland areas next to tidal rivers, where the ebb and flow irrigated the fields.
- In fact, the lower Kinabatangan wetlands, with their swamps and oxbow lakes and forests, host the largest concentration of wildlife in Malaysian Borneo.
- To study these reclusive animals, he wades barefoot through the swamps of Venezuela's llanos wetlands ecosystem in search of his water-dwelling subjects.
- They can live in freshwater and coastal marine habitats, including rivers, lakes, marshes, swamps, and estuaries.
- Indigenous to every continent except Antarctica, palms grow in arid deserts and brackish or fresh water swamps, in dry mountainous regions and tropical rain forests.
- In the swamps the water shimmered darkly and the slow snouts of alligators made semicircular ripples as they moved forward; water moccasins were curled over looping branches.
- Depending on the species, they may be found in freshwater, brackish, or marine areas including estuaries, swamps, marshes, and tidepools.
- They usually breed in marshes and brushy swamps with some open water, dense, low vegetation, and perches for singing.
- Except for the tidally influenced channels, most creeks dry up, with a few pockets of water left in billabongs and permanent swamps.
- Muddy and broad, it picks its way across the plains, changing course at will, leaving a maze of dead ends, ox-bow lakes, swamps and lagoons.
- For Gogodala communities, the land and lagoons, swamps and stretches of water are marked and re-marked by the actions and movement of their lives, as well as those who came before them.
- The 17 streams that transect the parks usually end in the tidal swamps and marshes that are frequently encountered below an elevation of 3 m.
- The river is lined with low bluffs alternating with wetlands, the latter either lightly wooded swamps or open marshes often locally dominated by a single plant species.
Synonyms marsh, bog, quagmire, mire, morass, fen, quag, sump swampland, marshland, fenland, wetland saltings quicksand North American salina, bayou, moor - 1.1 An area of waterlogged ground.
the ceaseless deluge had turned the lawn into a swamp Example sentencesExamples - In the Serra da Bocaina, plants grow along the edges of montane forests, as well as in well drained high-altitude grasslands and temporary swamps that arc flooded in the summer months.
verb swɒmpswɑmp [with object]1Overwhelm or flood with water. a huge wave swamped the canoes Example sentencesExamples - On the fifth anniversary of the floods that swamped the county, the Environment Agency has dreamt up a scheme involving cat-flaps to ensure the flood defences are badger-proof.
- More than 131 villages have been swamped by the flood and over thousands of people have been rendered homeless in the district.
- The warning came just nine months after Swindon was swamped by floods and could mean the town's first hosepipe ban for 15 years.
- It would be hard to miss the international media coverage of the devastating floods that swamped Prague, where the national team were based.
- Police say it is a miracle no one was killed when a flash flood swamped an English village.
- Traveller's World says it is attempting to contact a family which was on holiday in the Maldives when the islands were swamped by the waves.
- Towns in Indonesia's Aceh province, the closest region to the earthquake's epicentre, were swamped by the waves.
- He said it was now 50 years since Britain was swamped by terrible floods that resulted in the loss of 300 lives and the flooding of 25,000 properties.
- One injured man surnamed Guo lost his newly acquired shoes after he was swamped by two waves of water over 10 metres high.
- When the flood swamped the classroom, she was struggling in the water along with her classmates.
- As aid starts to get through to the areas most affected, the Sri Lankan government is beginning to look at rebuilding homes and businesses swamped by the killer waves.
- Easingwold Secondary School remained closed today after flash floods swamped classrooms, causing thousands of pounds-worth of damage to computer equipment.
- The Swordsman pub was again inundated today, only 13 months after being swamped in the great floods of 1999.
- The death toll from floods swamping large portions of northeastern India rose to 96 yesterday as six people died overnight, officials said.
- They spotted a multi-storey building and got to the fourth floor when the wave hit, completely swamping the entire three floors below.
- They are all orphans who lost their families when huge waves swamped their coastal villages during the Boxing Day tsunami in the Indian Ocean.
- Harsh floods also swamped southwestern Bangladesh this year.
- In New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers raced to patch the city's fractured levee system for fear the additional rain from Rita could swamp the walls and flood the city all over again.
- Early last year, massive floods swamped vast areas of the capital and directly affected more than 110,000 families in 138 subdistricts.
- When the island of Phuket was swamped by giant waves on Boxing Day, his sons Michael 24, and Matthew, 19, from Salford, feared he was dead.
Synonyms flood, inundate, deluge, wash out, soak, drench, saturate, immerse - 1.1no object (of a boat) become overwhelmed with water and sink.
the life boat somehow did not swamp, but made it to shore Example sentencesExamples - The disabled yacht, swamped and on her side, was drifting nearby.
- The two rescuers help the swimmer into their boat by lifting, encouraging, balancing, and preventing their boat from swamping.
- The first time, the boat swamped with water and they had to race back to dry land along Lincoln Avenue to bail the water.
- It has recently been suggested that a deck hatch was missing from the Solway Harvester and this could have allowed water to swamp the hold, sinking the boat in minutes.
- Following Blockley's death, his parents founded the Leo Blockley Memorial Campaign, which campaigns for safer rowing boats with the ability to withstand swamping or sinking.
- A speed boat had become swamped and was sinking.
- He said there was a fair amount of water in the river in those days, and rain, and the canoe was swamped as they navigated the rapids.
- A North East of Scotland skipper claimed that tough new European regulations put his crew in danger after his vessel was swamped by a massive wave.
- More than a few, however, baled their boat out of one wave only to be swamped by another.
- The defense's theory was that Scott could not have thrown Laci's heavily pregnant body over the side of the tiny, anchor-filled boat without swamping the boat with water and tipping it over.
- They're ragged, close together and, when the sea gets really bad, capable of undoing a recreational fishing vessel through swamping or capsizing or otherwise overwhelming the boat.
- A witness was concerned the wash could endanger staff working on moored boats in the area, as well as swamping rowing boats in the Putney area.
- Forty rowers had to be rescued from the Thames after high winds caused their boats to become swamped during a race from Putney, west London.
- The other key thing was I think in Sydney when the boat swamped, and Frank Dennis here sort of left the boat and deserted us and swam over to the bank, and we could have all drowned, and he just left us.
- A brave dad died trying to save his two young sons after a freak gust of wind swamped their boat with water.
- The wall-of-water theory is that in a lashing force - nine storm in the Irish Sea, a huge wave built up, swamped the vessel and pushed it below the surface.
- The men had been in a 23 foot powered canoe with four others transiting from Lale to Ghizo when their vessel was swamped, capsized and sunk.
- 1.2 Overwhelm with an excessive amount of something; inundate.
the country was swamped with goods from abroad feelings of guilt suddenly swamped her Example sentencesExamples - While Liu's directive appeared to give the poor peasant leagues an important role, in practice they were swamped by huge ‘human wave’ work teams.
- The sun is out, it's a glorious day, there's a cool breeze from time to time, the birds are singing and the place is swamped with tourists.
- A half dozen business schools were swamped by a wave of electronic intrusions Wednesday morning, after a computer hacker posted instructions on a BusinessWeek Online message board.
- While the Courts are swamped with thousands of Bill of Rights cases, where will the ordinary person go for justice?
- Any good quality triage is swamped by the flood of poor decisions and technical foul-ups.
- Earlier, Health Minister Omeed Medhat Mubarak said hospitals in the capital were swamped with wounded.
- It was swamped with demand and ended up with orders worth €6.5 billion, three times what it hoped for.
- Gee it's hot: The brutal heat wave that swamped southern Canada this last week saw mercury levels rise above temperatures recorded in Cancun, Calcutta and Athens.
- Baby Sasha brought smiles to the family again when she was born in November and the family was swamped with good wishes from Bradford fundraisers.
- Like hospitals, many of the province's mental health facilities are swamped with requests for help, and the people who need their services can't wait.
- But claims of a huge population boom swamping services are disputed.
- More schools are needed to prevent classrooms being swamped by the flood of families moving to Colchester.
- The apparatus of censorship was swamped by a flood of polemical pamphlets denouncing the ‘constitution’.
- When we announced our second annual Proud Community Awards a few months ago, we were swamped with nominations.
- Many feared that they were being swamped by huge waves of new immigrants and the large families the new arrivals typically had.
- Carl, a 22-year-old salesman, heard officers shout ‘armed police’, and then the road was swamped with police vehicles.
- But he said it happened because the business took off and he was swamped with work and things became chaotic.
- As a senior administrator, Pat was swamped with preparations.
- The heat wave that swamped Europe in 2003, for example, is now estimated to have taken 45,000 lives.
- But the new wave threatening to swamp the tsunami-affected nations of Asia is aid.
Synonyms overwhelm, inundate, flood, deluge, engulf, snow under, bury, overload, overburden, overpower, weigh down, besiege, beset, consume
Origin Early 17th century: probably ultimately from a Germanic base meaning 'sponge' or 'fungus'. Swamp is first found in the compound ‘swampwater’ and probably goes back to a Germanic root with the senses ‘sponge, fungus’. Sump (Middle English) is probably related, as it is first found with the meaning ‘swamp’.
Rhymes chomp, clomp, comp, pomp, romp, stomp, tromp, whomp, yomp Definition of swamp in US English: swampnounswɑmpswämp 1An area of low-lying, uncultivated ground where water collects; a bog or marsh. Example sentencesExamples - The river is lined with low bluffs alternating with wetlands, the latter either lightly wooded swamps or open marshes often locally dominated by a single plant species.
- Little swamp marsh islands dotted the river between the two hills.
- They can live in freshwater and coastal marine habitats, including rivers, lakes, marshes, swamps, and estuaries.
- Except for the tidally influenced channels, most creeks dry up, with a few pockets of water left in billabongs and permanent swamps.
- In the seventeenth century rice was grown on dry land, but in the next century it was chiefly grown in freshwater inland swamps or in lowland areas next to tidal rivers, where the ebb and flow irrigated the fields.
- To study these reclusive animals, he wades barefoot through the swamps of Venezuela's llanos wetlands ecosystem in search of his water-dwelling subjects.
- The 17 streams that transect the parks usually end in the tidal swamps and marshes that are frequently encountered below an elevation of 3 m.
- Muddy and broad, it picks its way across the plains, changing course at will, leaving a maze of dead ends, ox-bow lakes, swamps and lagoons.
- Yet too many of the bottom lands, swamps, and marshes that drew me back no longer exist.
- Visit ponds, swamps, fragile marshes, and pretty beaches along the Chesapeake, or fish the area's many streams and rivers.
- From seven in the morning till one in the afternoon we were marching, running, charging across hill and dale, through the swamps and the marshes, down on the ground, up again, and so on.
- The draining of the marsh Arabs' swamps and the forcing of them into Basra slums were planned out in those buildings.
- Depending on the species, they may be found in freshwater, brackish, or marine areas including estuaries, swamps, marshes, and tidepools.
- Indigenous to every continent except Antarctica, palms grow in arid deserts and brackish or fresh water swamps, in dry mountainous regions and tropical rain forests.
- These birds require shallow water habitats for feeding such as streams, ponds, lakes, marshes, swamps, wetlands, and flooded fields.
- For Gogodala communities, the land and lagoons, swamps and stretches of water are marked and re-marked by the actions and movement of their lives, as well as those who came before them.
- The area of low-lying swamp or marsh, as revealed through archaeology, is shown in brown.
- In fact, the lower Kinabatangan wetlands, with their swamps and oxbow lakes and forests, host the largest concentration of wildlife in Malaysian Borneo.
- They usually breed in marshes and brushy swamps with some open water, dense, low vegetation, and perches for singing.
- In the swamps the water shimmered darkly and the slow snouts of alligators made semicircular ripples as they moved forward; water moccasins were curled over looping branches.
Synonyms marsh, bog, quagmire, mire, morass, fen, quag, sump - 1.1 Used to emphasize the degree to which a piece of ground is waterlogged.
the ceaseless deluge had turned the lawn into a swamp Example sentencesExamples - In the Serra da Bocaina, plants grow along the edges of montane forests, as well as in well drained high-altitude grasslands and temporary swamps that arc flooded in the summer months.
verbswɑmpswämp [with object]1Overwhelm or flood with water. a huge wave swamped the canoes Example sentencesExamples - He said it was now 50 years since Britain was swamped by terrible floods that resulted in the loss of 300 lives and the flooding of 25,000 properties.
- More than 131 villages have been swamped by the flood and over thousands of people have been rendered homeless in the district.
- Police say it is a miracle no one was killed when a flash flood swamped an English village.
- As aid starts to get through to the areas most affected, the Sri Lankan government is beginning to look at rebuilding homes and businesses swamped by the killer waves.
- Towns in Indonesia's Aceh province, the closest region to the earthquake's epicentre, were swamped by the waves.
- They spotted a multi-storey building and got to the fourth floor when the wave hit, completely swamping the entire three floors below.
- When the flood swamped the classroom, she was struggling in the water along with her classmates.
- Early last year, massive floods swamped vast areas of the capital and directly affected more than 110,000 families in 138 subdistricts.
- Harsh floods also swamped southwestern Bangladesh this year.
- When the island of Phuket was swamped by giant waves on Boxing Day, his sons Michael 24, and Matthew, 19, from Salford, feared he was dead.
- The warning came just nine months after Swindon was swamped by floods and could mean the town's first hosepipe ban for 15 years.
- On the fifth anniversary of the floods that swamped the county, the Environment Agency has dreamt up a scheme involving cat-flaps to ensure the flood defences are badger-proof.
- They are all orphans who lost their families when huge waves swamped their coastal villages during the Boxing Day tsunami in the Indian Ocean.
- One injured man surnamed Guo lost his newly acquired shoes after he was swamped by two waves of water over 10 metres high.
- Easingwold Secondary School remained closed today after flash floods swamped classrooms, causing thousands of pounds-worth of damage to computer equipment.
- The death toll from floods swamping large portions of northeastern India rose to 96 yesterday as six people died overnight, officials said.
- Traveller's World says it is attempting to contact a family which was on holiday in the Maldives when the islands were swamped by the waves.
- In New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers raced to patch the city's fractured levee system for fear the additional rain from Rita could swamp the walls and flood the city all over again.
- The Swordsman pub was again inundated today, only 13 months after being swamped in the great floods of 1999.
- It would be hard to miss the international media coverage of the devastating floods that swamped Prague, where the national team were based.
Synonyms flood, inundate, deluge, wash out, soak, drench, saturate, immerse - 1.1no object (of a boat) become overwhelmed with water and sink.
Example sentencesExamples - The other key thing was I think in Sydney when the boat swamped, and Frank Dennis here sort of left the boat and deserted us and swam over to the bank, and we could have all drowned, and he just left us.
- The two rescuers help the swimmer into their boat by lifting, encouraging, balancing, and preventing their boat from swamping.
- A witness was concerned the wash could endanger staff working on moored boats in the area, as well as swamping rowing boats in the Putney area.
- The defense's theory was that Scott could not have thrown Laci's heavily pregnant body over the side of the tiny, anchor-filled boat without swamping the boat with water and tipping it over.
- The wall-of-water theory is that in a lashing force - nine storm in the Irish Sea, a huge wave built up, swamped the vessel and pushed it below the surface.
- A North East of Scotland skipper claimed that tough new European regulations put his crew in danger after his vessel was swamped by a massive wave.
- The first time, the boat swamped with water and they had to race back to dry land along Lincoln Avenue to bail the water.
- He said there was a fair amount of water in the river in those days, and rain, and the canoe was swamped as they navigated the rapids.
- Forty rowers had to be rescued from the Thames after high winds caused their boats to become swamped during a race from Putney, west London.
- More than a few, however, baled their boat out of one wave only to be swamped by another.
- A speed boat had become swamped and was sinking.
- The disabled yacht, swamped and on her side, was drifting nearby.
- Following Blockley's death, his parents founded the Leo Blockley Memorial Campaign, which campaigns for safer rowing boats with the ability to withstand swamping or sinking.
- A brave dad died trying to save his two young sons after a freak gust of wind swamped their boat with water.
- It has recently been suggested that a deck hatch was missing from the Solway Harvester and this could have allowed water to swamp the hold, sinking the boat in minutes.
- They're ragged, close together and, when the sea gets really bad, capable of undoing a recreational fishing vessel through swamping or capsizing or otherwise overwhelming the boat.
- The men had been in a 23 foot powered canoe with four others transiting from Lale to Ghizo when their vessel was swamped, capsized and sunk.
- 1.2 Overwhelm with an excessive amount of something; inundate.
the country was swamped with goods from abroad feelings of guilt suddenly swamped her Example sentencesExamples - Any good quality triage is swamped by the flood of poor decisions and technical foul-ups.
- The apparatus of censorship was swamped by a flood of polemical pamphlets denouncing the ‘constitution’.
- As a senior administrator, Pat was swamped with preparations.
- Like hospitals, many of the province's mental health facilities are swamped with requests for help, and the people who need their services can't wait.
- The heat wave that swamped Europe in 2003, for example, is now estimated to have taken 45,000 lives.
- It was swamped with demand and ended up with orders worth €6.5 billion, three times what it hoped for.
- More schools are needed to prevent classrooms being swamped by the flood of families moving to Colchester.
- Earlier, Health Minister Omeed Medhat Mubarak said hospitals in the capital were swamped with wounded.
- But claims of a huge population boom swamping services are disputed.
- A half dozen business schools were swamped by a wave of electronic intrusions Wednesday morning, after a computer hacker posted instructions on a BusinessWeek Online message board.
- But he said it happened because the business took off and he was swamped with work and things became chaotic.
- When we announced our second annual Proud Community Awards a few months ago, we were swamped with nominations.
- Many feared that they were being swamped by huge waves of new immigrants and the large families the new arrivals typically had.
- But the new wave threatening to swamp the tsunami-affected nations of Asia is aid.
- Baby Sasha brought smiles to the family again when she was born in November and the family was swamped with good wishes from Bradford fundraisers.
- The sun is out, it's a glorious day, there's a cool breeze from time to time, the birds are singing and the place is swamped with tourists.
- While the Courts are swamped with thousands of Bill of Rights cases, where will the ordinary person go for justice?
- Carl, a 22-year-old salesman, heard officers shout ‘armed police’, and then the road was swamped with police vehicles.
- While Liu's directive appeared to give the poor peasant leagues an important role, in practice they were swamped by huge ‘human wave’ work teams.
- Gee it's hot: The brutal heat wave that swamped southern Canada this last week saw mercury levels rise above temperatures recorded in Cancun, Calcutta and Athens.
Synonyms overwhelm, inundate, flood, deluge, engulf, snow under, bury, overload, overburden, overpower, weigh down, besiege, beset, consume
Origin Early 17th century: probably ultimately from a Germanic base meaning ‘sponge’ or ‘fungus’. |