Definitions for swamps

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swamps swamp

Spelling: [swomp]

IPA: /swɒmp/

Swamps is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in swamps (ampssw).

Definitions for swamps

noun

1. a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation.

verb (used with object)

1. to flood or drench with water or the like.
2. Nautical. to sink or fill (a boat) with water.
3. to plunge or cause to sink in or as if in a swamp.
4. to overwhelm, especially to overwhelm with an excess of something:
5. to render helpless.
6. to remove trees and underbrush from (a specific area), especially to make or cleave a trail (often followed by out).
7. to trim (felled trees) into logs, as at a logging camp or sawmill.

verb (used without object)

1. to fill with water and sink, as a boat.
2. to sink or be stuck in a swamp or something likened to a swamp.
3. to be plunged into or overwhelmed with something, especially something that keeps one busy, worried, etc.

Origin of swamps

1615-25; Dutch zwamp creek, fen; akin to sump and to Middle Low German swamp, Old Norse svǫppr sponge

Examples for swamps

When the pioneers reached Toledo it was called “Frogtown” because the place was a swamp.

Taku-Wakin could no more lead them out of the swamp than his stick would leave him.

A nuisance on Balera, which is the equivalent of a Terran swamp.

Yes, but the dark Justice League—with swamp Thing, Etrigan, Constantine, Deadman, and others.

"I got in the swamp trying to take a short cut," Frank explained.

Klain is not the first to crawl out of the swamp of Biden World on to the larger stage.

Description: A “swamp cabbage” is a semi-aquatic tropical plant.

Man, although he had just come, became king of this swamp, king for the night.

But to go at it and drain the swamp was a very different matter.

Yeager took the photo while balancing on a raft in a muddy Jamaican swamp.