swamp

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

1. low land that is seasonally flooded;
has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog (Freq. 4)
• Syn:
swampland
• Derivationally related forms:
swampy
• Hypernyms:
wetland
• Hyponyms:
slough
• Instance Hyponyms:
Everglades, Okefenokee Swamp
2. a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables
- he was trapped in a medical swamp
• Hypernyms:
situation

II - verb

1. fill quickly beyond capacity;
as with a liquid (Freq. 1)
- the basement was inundated after the storm
- The images flooded his mind
• Syn:
deluge, flood, inundate
• See Also:
flood in (for: flood)
• Derivationally related forms:
inundation (for: inundate), flood (for: flood), flooding (for: flood), deluge (for: deluge)
• Hypernyms:
fill, fill up, make full
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something with something
2. drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged (Freq. 1)
- The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor
• Syn:
drench
• Hypernyms:
flood
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Something ----s something

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  swampland, deluge, flood, inundate, drench