swampnoun [ C or U ]
uk/swɒmp/us/swɑːmp/(an area of) very wet, soft land:
an alligator-infested swamp
The Everglades are an area of swamp in southern Florida.
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Geography: wetland
- bog
- boggy
- fen
- floodplain
- marsh
- marshland
- marshy
- mire
- morass
- peat bog
- quagmire
- quicksand
- slough
- swamp gas
- swampland
- swampy
- water meadow
- waterlogged
- wetland
swampverb
uk/swɒmp/us/swɑːmp/swamp verb (COVER)
[ T ] to cover a place or thing with a large amount of water:
High tides have swamped the coast.
The boat was swamped by an enormous wave.
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Enclosing, surrounding and immersing
- beleaguer
- beleaguered
- beset
- border
- box sb/sth in
- dunk
- fence sth in
- fence sth off
- flood
- gather
- gift-wrap
- gift-wrapped
- steep
- surround
- swallow
- wound 1
- wrap
- wrap (sb) up
- wrap sth around sb/sth
- wrapped
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swamp verb (TOO MUCH/BIG)
[ T often passive ] If something swamps a person, system, or place, more of it arrives than can be easily dealt with:
Foreign cars have swamped the UK market.
I'm swamped with work at the moment.
Don't let feelings of depression swamp you.
[ T ] informal If clothes swamp you, they are much too big for you.
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Causing difficulties for oneself or others
- be a tall order idiom
- be asking for trouble idiom
- be your own worst enemy idiom
- bugger
- bugger sb about
- dig
- lay
- lay yourself open to attack, criticism, ridicule, etc. idiom
- like pulling teeth idiom
- make a rod for your own back idiom
- make heavy weather of sth idiom
- overburden
- pose
- shoot
- spell trouble idiom
- store
- store sth up
- store up trouble/problems idiom
- subject sb/sth to sth
- wrong-foot
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