swamp
swamp is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.
- transitive verb. To plunge or sink into a swamp.
- transitive verb. To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.
- transitive verb. Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
- intransitive verb. To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.
- intransitive verb. To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.
- noun. low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
- noun. a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables
"he was trapped in a medical swamp"
- verb. fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
"the basement was inundated after the storm"
"The images flooded his mind"
- verb. drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
"The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor"
Synonyms
swampland, deluge, flood, inundate, drench
Common word forms
swamps, swamped, swamper, swamping, swampable, swampless
Words from these letters
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