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swamp

/swomp/US // swɒmp //UK // (swɒmp) //

沼泽地,沼泽,泥沼,沼泽地带

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to flood or drench with water or the like.
    • : Nautical. to sink or fill with water.
    • : to plunge or cause to sink in or as if in a swamp.
    • : to overwhelm, especially to overwhelm with an excess of something: He swamped us with work.
    • : to render helpless.
    • : to remove trees and underbrush from, especially to make or cleave a trail.
    • : to trim into logs, as at a logging camp or sawmill.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to fill with water and sink, as a boat.
    • : to sink or be stuck in a swamp or something likened to a swamp.
    • : to be plunged into or overwhelmed with something, especially something that keeps one busy, worried, etc.

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Examples

  • Let the friendly hosts, who live on-site, cook you a meal, set you up with fishing gear, or point you to the best local seafood markets and swamp tours.

  • They live in the moist and muddy soil of wetlands, swamps, and bogs, and their tunnels can be nearly anywhere in a complex overgrown wilderness.

  • Anaerobic bacteria produce it in places such as sewage, swamps, marshlands, and rice fields, and in the intestines of most animals.

  • Anaerobic microbes living in such places as sewage, swamps and the intestinal tracts of animals from penguins to people are the only known life-forms on Earth that produce the molecule.

  • In some ways, it would be easier to just not care, to be one of those people who see no difference among a park, a swamp and the rim of an active volcano, to be one of those people who is mentally living six months ago.

  • Without any evidence or provocation, she attacks Swamp Thing—and then gets beaten in the only fight she has in the issue.

  • Electric Swamp Blues How can you possibly find authentic swamp blues in Portland, Oregon?

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

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

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

  • A native brought news that a collector and his wife were hiding in a swamp near the road.

  • Two companies deployed over a swamp and went along the beach under cover of the Utah Battery.

  • The swamp is more easily accessible from Virginia than from North Carolina.

  • In the campaign in Holland last war, a party marching through a swamp, was ordered to form two deep.

  • The road was a bullock track, a swamp of mud amid the larger swamp of the ploughed land and jungle.