Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An area of low-lying, soggy ground.
- noun Something that hinders, engulfs, or overwhelms.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tract of low, soft, wet ground the drainage of which is insufficient either from its depressed situation or from its uniform flatness; a marsh; a swamp; a bog; a fen.
- noun Synonyms Swamp, etc. See
marsh .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
- noun (Min.) See Bog ore, under
Bog .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A tract of soft, wet ground; a
marsh ; afen . - noun Anything that
entraps or makes progress difficult.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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One of the suggestions being made as a way out of this Florida/Michigan morass is simply to seat the delegates based on the actual vote.
Who Didn’t Vote in the Florida and Michigan Democratic Primaries? - Swampland - TIME.com 2008
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Today, it seems all too possible that the region's coddled political and economic elites will allow their states to slide into a Latin American morass, as they continue to live high on the hog while the dreams of ordinary people go down the tubes.
Ties That Bind 2007
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Maybe the best way out of the morass is to think of constructions like "better than her" as forgivable lapses — like "It's me."
Word Court 2004
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Maybe the best way out of the morass is to think of constructions like "better than her" as forgivable lapses — like "It's me."
Word Court 2004
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He found that old Ralph regarded the Dismal Swamp, as they called the morass, as utterly uninhabitable and impassable; he had never heard any sounds of life from within; he thought the place haunted; it abounded in quagmires, and corpse lights and baleful fires were seen on its waters at night.
The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune 1863
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A while back Glaser said not all device makers are adopting Real’s Helix architecture and that, “A balkanization morass is growing”.
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Worst, you might get it home and find out that you didn't really have a decent idea to go with the image, and end up slogging your way through some 12,000 word morass which Pabst would choke on.
Far Beyond the Stars Steven Barnes 2000
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I think of the first few days of whatever we're calling this, the morass, which is an opportunity to learn things.
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Worst, you might get it home and find out that you didn't really have a decent idea to go with the image, and end up slogging your way through some 12,000 word morass which Pabst would choke on.
Far Beyond the Stars Steven Barnes 2000
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In a deep hole near the edge of the morass was a huge Hereford bull.
Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies Alice B. Emerson
tonya commented on the word morass
Something that hinders, engulfs, or overwhelms: a morass of detail.
August 31, 2008