Definition of Swamp

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Definition of Swamp

Swamp

Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.

To plunge or sink into a swamp.

To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.

Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.

To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.

To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.

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Swamp Quotations

Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.
William Bernbach

The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling.
Jim Harrison

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
David Herbert Lawrence

Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.
Yitzhak Rabin

When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.
John Fogerty

I think cheese smells funny, but I feel bananas "are" funny. I'm assuming Swamp told the whole story of the executives seriously asking us to replace the banana with cheese because they thought it was funnier.
Joe Murray

We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.
Ron Wyden

Swamp Translations

swamp in Dutch is broek, drasland, moeras, moer
swamp in Finnish is suo
swamp in German is Sumpf
swamp in Italian is palude
swamp in Spanish is pantano

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