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:
   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, 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, 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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1. Lawrence Jones:

   I was never a fan of CPAC being in the swamp. I thought that was a dumb move, i think we're going to see this become a recurring theme. This is one of the benefits of COVID, sadly to say, is that they realize, OK, we're not going to give our money to these liberal states, swampy cities that have all these regulations. Let's take it to the heartland.

2. Richard Leakey:

   He obviously fell into a swamp, which is why his bones were so complete and they weren't scavenged by animals.

3. Mick Mulvaney:

   This is really important to the President, i can tell you that this is a big part of draining the swamp. ... Really, what you are talking about doing is restructuring Washington, DC, and that is how you drain the swamp.

4. Glenn Youngkin:

   If Bill Clinton and Bill Clinton had a son, it's Terry McAuliffe ! he is a creature of the swamp.

5. Dan Riemer:

   That search in the swamp is leading everyone to believe Brian is in the swamp, and no civilians are paying attention to who is around them, [The] focus needs to be on people being aware, [and] someone will see something, just like the campers who saw then van.