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swamp   (TTS Sound)

The noun swamp has 2 senses

• swamp, swampland -- (low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog)


• swamp -- (a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables; "he was trapped in a medical swamp")

The verb swamp has 2 senses

• swamp, drench -- (drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged; "The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor")


• deluge, flood, inundate, swamp -- (fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind")