Synonyms for Swamp
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1. swamp, swamplandnoun

   low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog

   Synonyms:
   swamp, swampland

2. swampverb

   a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables

   "he was trapped in a medical swamp"

   Synonyms:
   swampland

3. swamp, drenchverb

   drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged

   "The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor"

   Synonyms:
   sop, swamp, douse, inundate, souse, deluge, imbrue, flood, soak, drench, dowse

4. deluge, flood, inundate, swampverb

   fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid

   "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"

   Synonyms:
   submerge, oversupply, swamp, flood out, glut, inundate, overwhelm, deluge, flood, drench

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1. swampnoun

   Synonyms:
   bog, fen, quagmire, morass, marsh, slough, spongy land, soft and wet ground

2. swampverb

   Synonyms:
   ingulf, sink, whelm, swallow up

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1. swampnoun

   Synonyms:
   marsh, morass, slough, quagmire, bog, fen, marish

   Associated words:
   paludine, paludinous, paludism, paludose, palustrine, draco, muck, effluvium, malaria, miasma

2. swampverb

   Synonyms:
   engulf, overwhelm, submerge

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1. List of paraphrases for "swamp":

   marsh, marshes, marshy, quagmire, wetland, marais, swampy, morass, swamps, bog, marshland, mire, fen, slough, sloughs, bayou, wetlands

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How to use Swamp in a sentence?

1. Norm Ornstein:

   Donald Trump was not really someone who emerged from the swamp on his own, there were decades that built towards the Trumpism that led to all of this.

2. Adrienne Rich:

   As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.

3. Jason Straka:

   If they don't go out and literally lift their footprint up in the air, they're going to be in a perpetually deeper and deeper bathtub, if they think they have problems now, in 10 years, they're going to be a swamp.

4. Derek Brown:

   Democrats, Republicans, we all hang out together in a weird way in this town, we're on the same plane, we're connected just by living here. Outside looking in, it seems like Washingtonians are embroiled in a constant battle, but it's not like that. It's not the swamp.

5. Michael Moore:

   There's no bigger swamp in Washington than the Federal Reserve Board, it's filled with hundreds of economists who are worthless, who have the wrong model in their mind. They should all be, they should all be fired and they should be replaced by good economists.