Dictionary Entry
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.
5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.
- 2transitive verb
To plunge or sink into a swamp.
- 3transitive verb
To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.
- 4transitive verb
Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
- 5intransitive verb
To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.
- 6intransitive verb
To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.
- 7noun
low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
Synonyms
- 8noun
a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables
"he was trapped in a medical swamp"
- 9verb
fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
"the basement was inundated after the storm"
"The images flooded his mind"
- 10verb
drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
"The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor"
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