Word Meaning

swamps definition and meaning

n. Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.
v. t. To plunge or sink into a swamp.
v. t. To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.
v. t. Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
v. i. To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.
v. i. To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.

Crossword clues for swamps

- Area of waterlogged ground
- Bog or marsh
- Boggy area
- Did butterfly finish up in marsh?
- Flood
- Marsh
- Marsh did pool laps quietly
- Marshy ground
- Overwhelming
- Permanently waterlogged ground
- Waterlogged ground
- Wetland
- Wetlands
- Bogs
- Inundates
- Overwhelms; bogs