Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to a swamp; consisting of swamp; like a swamp; low, wet, and spongy: as, swampy land.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Consisting of swamp; like a swamp; low, wet, and spongy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Describing land that is wet like a
swamp .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of soil) soft and watery
Etymologies
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Examples
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A long succession of boiling rapids and waterfalls having in days of yore obstructed the passage of the fur-traders, they had landed at the top of them, and cut a pathway through the woods, which happened at this place to be exceedingly swampy: hence the name Savan (or _swampy_) Portage.
Hudson Bay 1859
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Their car swerved off the road and onto the median which was soggy to the point of swampy from a recent rainstorm.
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The pilots changed course and headed for an airport near McComb, Mississippi but the plane stalled near Gillsburg, Mississippi and crashed in swampy woods.
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The pilots changed course and headed for an airport near McComb, Mississippi but the plane stalled near Gillsburg, Mississippi and crashed in swampy woods.
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Their car swerved off the road and onto the median which was soggy to the point of swampy from a recent rainstorm.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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Once I came home, I had lost the golden thread that was guiding me and to make matters worse, I had come to a portion of the book I call the swampy middle of doom.
Archive 2009-08-01 Jess Granger 2009
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Once I came home, I had lost the golden thread that was guiding me and to make matters worse, I had come to a portion of the book I call the swampy middle of doom.
When the Going Gets Tough Ann Aguirre 2009
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(In the interior, there is more likely to be a couple of big boulders across the road, diverting you to the shoulder; in swampy areas there is no shoulder.)
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(In the interior, there is more likely to be a couple of big boulders across the road, diverting you to the shoulder; in swampy areas there is no shoulder.)
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They were sometimes held in swampy areas teeming with snakes and malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
Utecht, Richard W. 1990
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