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Swampy

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Adjective

1. boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged

(of soil) soft and watery

Example Sentences:
'the ground was boggy under foot'
'a marshy coastline'
'miry roads'
'wet mucky lowland'
'muddy barnyard'
'quaggy terrain'
'the sloughy edge of the pond'
'swampy bayous'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Swampy

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adjectiveWord forms: ˈswampier or ˈswampiest
1. 
of or consisting of a swamp or swamps
2. 
like a swamp; wet and spongy; marshy

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Swampy

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n.
1.
a. An area of low-lying land that is frequently flooded, especially one dominated by woody plants.
b. A lowland region saturated with water.
2. A situation or place fraught with difficulties and imponderables: a financial swamp.
v. swamped, swamp·ing, swamps
v.tr.
1. To drench in or cover with or as if with water.
2. To inundate or burden; overwhelm: She was swamped with work.
3. Nautical To fill (a ship or boat) with water to the point of sinking it.
v.intr.
To become full of water or sink.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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