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Meaning of swamp

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  swamp
      n 1: low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants
           than a marsh and better drainage than a bog [syn: {swamp},
           {swampland}]
      2: a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables; "he
         was trapped in a medical swamp"
      v 1: drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged; "The
           tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor" [syn: {swamp},
           {drench}]
      2: fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement
         was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"
         [syn: {deluge}, {flood}, {inundate}, {swamp}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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