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swamp
 
Noun swamp has 2 senses
  1. swamp, swampland - low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
    --1 is a kind of wetland
    --1 has particulars: Everglades; Okefenokee Swamp; slough
    Derived form: verb swamp1
  2. swamp - a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables; "he was trapped in a medical swamp"
    --2 is a kind of     situation
Verb swamp has 2 senses
  1. swamp, drench - drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged; "The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor"
    --1 is one way to flood
    Derived form: noun swamp1
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Something ----s something
  2. deluge, flood, inundate, swamp - fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"
    --2 is one way to fill, fill up, make full
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s something with something
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