swamp

Nouns

• (n) low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog swampland,
• (n) a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables
  • he was trapped in a medical swamp

Verbs

• (v) drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
  • The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor
  drench,
• (v) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
  • the basement was inundated after the storm
  • The images flooded his mind
  deluge, flood, inundate,

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