1. Noun
Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.
2. Verb
To plunge or sink into a swamp.
3. Verb
To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.
4. Verb
Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
5. Verb
To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.
6. Verb
To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.
7. Noun
low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
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8. Noun
a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables; "he was trapped in a medical swamp"
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