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Swamp

Definition: Swamp

Swamp

Noun

1. Low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog.

2. A situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables; "he was trapped in a medical swamp".

Verb

1. Drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged; "The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor.".

2. Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "swamp" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1682. (references)

Etymology: Swamp \Swamp\, noun. [Compare to Anglo-Saxon swam a fungus, Old Dutch swam a sponge, Dutch zwam a fungus, German schwamm a sponge, Icelandic sv["o]ppr, Danish & Swedish swamp, Gothic swamms, Greek somfo`s porous, spongy.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definition: Swamp

DomainDefinition

Biology & Biotechnology

A tract generally characterised by a soil that is slightly acid, neutral, or slightly alkaline, and a water table at or above the soil surface(the water often moving perceptibly), supporting not only low vegetation, e. g. sedges, but also reeds and woody vegetation, including trees. Source: European Union. (references)

Dream Interpretation

To walk through swampy places in dreams, foretells that you will be the object of adverse circumstances. Your inheritance will be uncertain, and you will undergo keen disappointments in your love matters.
To go through a swamp where you see clear water and green growths, you will take hold on prosperity and singular pleasures, the obtaining of which will be attended with danger and intriguing. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Food & Agriculture

Wet spongy ground. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

As applied to a mining claim, to clear a narrow strip along the boundaryline, where the location is on timberland. (references)

Weather

A type of wetland that is dominated by woody vegetation and does not accumulate appreciable peat deposits; it may be fresh- or saltwater, and tidal or nontidal. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Swamp

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A swamp is a wetland that features permanent inundation of large areas of land by shallow bodies of water, generally with a substantial number of hummocks, or dry-land protrusions. Swamps usually are regarded as including a large amount of woody vegetation. When a wetland area does not, it is usually termed a marsh.

Swamps are generally characterized by very slow-moving waters, often rich in tannins from decaying vegetation. They are usually associated with adjacent rivers or lakes. In some cases, rivers become swamps for a distance. Swamps are features of areas with very low topographic relief, although they may be surrounded by mountains.

The most famous swamps in the United States are the Okefenokee Swamp (home to the cartoon characters of Pogo, by Walt Kelly) and the Great Dismal Swamp. The Okefenokee is located in extreme southeastern Georgia and extends slightly into northeastern Florida. The Great Dismal Swamp lies in extreme southeastern Virginia and extreme northeastern North Carolina. Both are National Wildlife Refuges. Another swamp area, Reelfoot Lake of extreme western Tennessee, was created by the New Madrid earthquake of 1812. Both the Great Dismal and Reelfoot are centered around large lakes.

Swamps are characterized by rich biodiversity and specialized organisms. For instance, southeastern U.S. swamps, such as those mentioned above, feature trees such as the Bald cypress and Water tupelo, which are adapted to growing in standing water, and animals such as the American alligator.

A common species name in biological nomenclature is the Latin palustris, meaning "of the swamp". Examples of this are:

List of Major Swamps

United States:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Swamp."

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Synonyms: Swamp

Synonyms: deluge (v), drench (v), flood (v), inundate (v). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: swamping (biology & biotechnology, geographyfood & agriculture, geography).

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Synonyms within Context: Swamp

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Destruction

Smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shatter, shiver; batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate; nip; tear to rags, tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, engulf, ingulf, submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground; waste; atomize, vaporize.

Marsh

Noun: marsh, swamp, morass, marish, moss, fen, bog, quagmire, slough, sump, wash; mud, squash, slush; baygall, cienaga, jhil, vlei.

Ship

Boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, cock boat, ferry oat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully, bateau battery, broadhorn, dory, droger, drogher; dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot; shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret; eight oar, four oar, pair oar; randan; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame; iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht.

Success

Settle, do for; break the neck of, break the back of; capsize, sink, shipwreck, drown, swamp; subdue; subjugate; (subject); reduce; make the enemy bite the dust; victimize, roll in the dust, trample under foot, put an extinguisher upon.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Swamp

English words defined with "swamp": Acrostichum aureumbog, bog soil, bonoboCaltha palustris, cowslipEucalyptus camphora, Everglade, EvergladesFen land, flow, foetid pothosgenlisea, genus Melospiza, genus Taxodium, genus Viminaria, golden fernkingcupleather fern, Lysichiton americanummarsh marigold, May blob, meadow bright, Meadow hay, Melospiza, mountain swamp gumNyssa aquaticaPalustrine, Pan paniscus, peat bog, Pin oak, poison ash, poison dogwood, poison sumac, polecat weed, Prairie itch, pygmy chimpanzeeRhus vernix, Rucervineskunk cabbage, slough, Swamp hen, swamp honeysuckle, swamp oak, Swamping, Swang, Symplocarpus foetidusTaxodium, Thamyn, Toxicodendron vernixViminariaWater crake, water dragon, water gum, Water hare, Water locust tree, Whistling eagle. (references)
Specialty definitions using "swamp": aerating rootchuckie stoneMethanogens, MORA OLEIFERArespiratory root, RiceSANITARY ENGINEER. (references)
Etymologies containing "swamp": sump. (references)

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Modern Usage: Swamp

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Hey, man. You Swamp Thing? (Con Air; writing credit: Scott Rosenberg)

This swamp is a monument to death. (Bride of the Monster; writing credit: Edward D. Wood Jr.; Alex Gordon)

Dave Robicheaux drowned in the bottle and went into the swamp to sleep it off. (Heaven's Prisoners; writing credit: Harley Peyton)

Do not bring your evil into my swamp. (Swamp Thing; writing credit: Judith Berg; Tom Blomquist)

Frog in the swamp, where mosquitoes and fireflies roam, Where if you're rod toed, you stay out of the road, Cause the cars that go by, they don't honk. (Muppet Babies; writing credit: Katherine Lawrence; Jeffrey Scott)

Lyrics

This one just came out of the swamp (Optimistic; performing artist: Radiohead)

Movie/TV Titles

The Red Swamp Fox (1969)

Swamp Country (1966)

Romp in a Swamp (1959)

Swamp Fox (1959)

Lure of the Swamp (1957)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Swamp

DomainTitle

Books

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Swamp

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Photo Album: Swamp

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This Cypress swamp in Georgia is a breeding ground for Anopheles crucians mosquitoes. Credit: CDC.

The Ganges River forms an extensive delta where it empties into the Bay of Bengal. The delta is largely covered with a swamp forest known as the Sunderbans, which is home to the Royal Bengal Tiger. Credit: NASA.

C. D. Meaney at Marquesas, Florida Reef topography Working offshore in the water to cut in mangrove swamp line. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Plane table setup in mangrove swamp Crew off of SIALIA. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Beaver dam at Black Swamp Creek, a tributary of the Patuxent River. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Paddling in Black Swamp Creek. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Swamp loosestrife - Decodon verticillatus along the Moonakis River. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The swamp fern, frequently found through the Reserve, is an indicator of environments that are rich in nutrients. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

World War II causeway in mangrove swamp area. Credit: Small World.

Man-made boat canal through mangrove swamp. Credit: Small World.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "Swamp".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Frog; bullfrog; swamp; frogs; toad; toads.Croak; frog; bullfrog; swamp; night; .
Bullfrog; frog; swamp; croak; croaking; toad.Croak; frog; toad; swamp.
Croak; frog; bullfrog; swamp; night; .Bullfrog; frog; swamp; croak; croaking; toad.
Croak; frog; bullfrog; swamp; night; .Bullfrog; frog; swamp; croak; croaking; toad.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Swamp

AuthorQuotation

Thomas Jefferson

That Indian swamp in the wilderness.

Virgil

The swamp of Styx, by which the gods take oath.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Swamp

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

The kitchen became a swamp of heat, and the family ate hurriedly, and went out to sit on the doorstep until the water should get hot.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

The approach to this was through a succession of descending grassy hollows, full of young pitch pines, into a larger wood about the swamp.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Swamp

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

With the onset of spring, the virus reappears in the birds (native bird species do not seem to be affected by the virus) and mosquitoes of the swamp. (references)

For reasons not fully understood, the virus may escape from enzootic foci in swamp areas in birds or bridge vectors such as Coquilletidia perturbans and Aedes sollicitans. (references)

When health officials maintain surveillance for EEE virus activity, this movement out of the swamp can be detected, and if the level of activity is sufficiently high, can recommend and undertake measures to reduce the risk to humans. (references)

Economic History

Uganda

Terrain: 18% inland water and swamp; 12% national parks, forest, and game reserves; 70% forest, woodland, grassland. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

RICE-:WATER:, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. It is said to be rich in both obtundite and lethargine, and is brewed in a midnight fog by a fat which of the Dismal Swamp.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Swamp

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

John F. Kennedy

1961-1963Without new, realistic measures, it will someday swamp our farmers and our taxpayers in a national scandal or a farm depression.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989We are faced with the most evil enemy mankind has known in his long climb from the swamp to the stars.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Swamp

"Swamp" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 68.80% of the time. "Swamp" is used about 266 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)68.8%18322,794
Lexical Verb (infinitive)21.05%5645,296
Lexical Verb (base form)6.39%1785,106
Noun (proper)3.76%10111,207
                    Total100.00%266N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Swamp

The following table summarizes the usage of "swamp" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
SwampLast name17045,222
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Swamp

Expressions using "swamp": little swamp eagle little swamp hen mangrove swamp mexican swamp cypress mountain swamp gum Okefenokee Swamp rice swamp swamp andromeda swamp ash swamp azalea swamp bay swamp birch swamp blackberry swamp blackbird swamp blueberry swamp buggy swamp cabbage swamp candleberry swamp candles swamp chestnut oak swamp cottonwood swamp cypress swamp deer swamp dewberry swamp fever swamp fly honeysuckle swamp gum swamp hare swamp hen swamp hickory swamp honeysuckle swamp hook swamp horsetail swamp itch swamp laurel swamp lily swamp locust swamp mallow swamp maple swamp milkweed swamp oak swamp ore swamp partridge swamp pine swamp pink swamp plant swamp poplar swamp rabbit swamp red oak swamp robin swamp rose mallow swamp sassafras swamp smb. with work swamp Spanish oak swamp sparrow swamp sunflower swamp white oak swamp willow white swamp honeysuckle. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "swamp": swamp-covered, swamp-dozer, swamp-dweller, swamp-dwellers, swamp-dwelling, swamp-fever, swamp-flies, swamp-forest, swamp-hunter, swamp-infested, swamp-like, swamp-ridden.

Ending with "swamp": peat-swamp.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Swamp

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

swamp cooler

666

charleston swamp fox

18

swamp

328

swamp pop

17

okefenokee swamp

133

swamp rat

17

swamp thing

102

great swamp

17

la swamp

96

fox swamp theater

16

swamp fox

71

swamp dog

16

swamp tour

50

oak swamp white

16

new orleans swamp tour

49

cinemas fox swamp

16

swamp buggy

48

okeefenokee swamp

15

louisiana swamp tour

41

mangrove swamp

15

portable swamp cooler

39

bat keene swamp

14

swamp picture

37

gas swamp

13

boat swamp

29

cypress swamp

13

louisiana swamp

29

cooler maintenance swamp

13

drinking farm swamp

23

okefenokee swamp park

13

great dismal swamp

23

swamp pop music

12

billie safari swamp

22

florida swamp

12

marengo ride swamp

21

georgia swamp

12

cooler part swamp

19

monster swamp

11

dismal swamp

18

dj swamp

11
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Swamp

Language Translations for "swamp"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

përmbyt (deluge, drown, flood, inundate, overflow, submerge, submerse, waterlog), moçal (backwater, bayou, bog, Fen, Mars, Marsh, mire, morass, muskeg, quagmire, slew, Slough), mbush me ujë (waterlog), fundos (ruin, sink, subside, weight down), dynd (run over). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مستنقع (bog, fen, marsh, marshland, mire, moor, morass, moss, ooze, patch, pond, quag, quagmire, slew, slough, sump), ‏غمر (deluge, douse, dunk, engulf, float, flood, flow, gulf, immerse, immersion, inundate, inundation, load, overflow, overwhelm, sluice, souse, submerge, suffuse, wash), ‏غرق (deluge, dip, drown, drowning, eject, founder, go under, grub, relapse, shipwright, sink, sinking, submergence, wreck), ‏أترع (brim, choke), ‏أرض سبخة (quagmire, salt marsh). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

тресавище (bog, mire, moor, morass, ooze, quag, quagmire, sink, slew), наводнявам (deluge, drown, float, flood, flow, inundate, water), мочурище (flat, quagmire), заливам (flash, flood, flush, inundate, lick, overflow, overrun, perfuse, sluice, splash, whelm), блато (backwater, bog, hag, mere, mire, morass, muskeg, pan, pool, water hole), потопявам (immerse, inundate, send down, sink, sop, submerge, submerse, wreck), поглъщам (absorb, adsorb, devour, engorge, engross, engulf, imbibe, ingulf, ingurgitate, pouch, prepossess, soak, soak up, suck, suck down, suck in, suck up, swallow, take down, take in, take over, whelm), повличам (drag, run away with, sweep away). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(depression, sunken), 沼泽 (bog, Boggy, marsh, morass, slew, slews), 沼澤 (glade, marsh). (various references)

   

Czech

  

moèál (bog, morass, quag, quagmire, Slough), bažina (bog, Fen, Marsh, morass, moss, quag, quagmire, Slough). (various references)

   

Danish

  

sump (bog, heel, marsh, slough). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

moeras (marsh), moer (female, marsh, nut), drasland (marsh), broek (marsh, pants, short pants, shorts, trousers). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

marĉo (marsh). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

mýri (marsh), mýra (marsh). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

مستغرق شدن , مرداب (Backwater, Lagoon, Marsh, Mere, Morass, Quagmire, Swampland), سیاه اب (Bog, Marsh, Mossy), دچارکردن (Embroil, Trouble), درباتلاق فروبردن , باتلاق (Bog, Marsh, Mire, Morass, Quagmire, Slop, Slough, Swampland). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

suo (bog, fen, marsh). (various references)

   

French

  

marais, marécage. (various references)

   

German

  

Sumpf (bog, cesspool, Marsh, mire, morass, mud, puddle, quagmire, Slough, sump, swampland). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

έλος (bog, marsh). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"ציף (deluge, flood, glut, inundate, overflow, overwhelm, sluice), בוץ (mire, mud), בצ" (bog, mire, morass), רקק (bog, mire, morass, puddle). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ingovány (moor, moorland, morass, quag, quagmire, Slough, tarn). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

rawa (bog, marsh, marshy, quagmire), paya (bog, quagmire). (various references)

   

Italian

  

palude (bog, Fen, Marsh, morass, moss, quagmire, slash, slew, Slough, slue), pantano (bog, mire, morass, ooze, quagmire, Slough). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

沼沢 (marsh), (bog, lake, pond), (dale, marsh, valley). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しょうたく (house in which a mistress is kept, marsh), さわ (a chat over tea, dale, marsh, valley), ぬま (bog, lake, pond), やち (marsh land). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

. (various references)

   

Manx

  

curragh (bog, canoe, coracle, fen, marsh; wickerwork pannier, quagmire), creelagh (withered place), anagh (fen, marsh). (various references)

   

Maya

  

ukum. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ampsway

   

Portuguese

  

pântano (fen, flush, marish, marsh, mere, moor, morass, muskeg, quag, quagmire, sough), lodaçal (marsh, mire, muskeg, plash). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

smârc, se împotmoli (beach, poach, settle in the mud, stick in the mud), scufunda (dip, dive, drown, engulf, founder, run down, send to the bottom, sink, soak, submerge, subside, whelm), umple cu apã (fill with water), mlaştinã (bog, Fen, Marsh, mere, mire, moor, morass, puddle, quagmire, slop, Slough), inunda (deluge, drown, float, flood, flow, flush, glut, inundate, overflow, overrun, shower, submerge), fi copleşit, fi înghiţit, baltã (bog, Fen, lake, mere, moor, morass, plash, pool, puddle, slop, Slough), îneca (choke, deluge, drown, float, flood, flush, inundate, overflow, smother, steep, stifle, suffocate, suffuse). (various references)

   

Romany

  

azm tsi. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

засыпать (fall asleep, ply), захлестнуть, затоплять (deluge, drown, flood, flush, inundate, overflow, scuttle, submerge, submerse, waterlog), заливать (flood, overflow, overwhelm, suffuse, whelm), бол�, болото (bog, marsh, mire, morass, moss, muskeg, quag, quagmire, sump, swampland, wetland). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

boglach (bog, marsh). (various references)

   

Sepedi

  

mohlaka. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pretrpati (clutter up, congest, crowd, glut, overcrowd, overload, pile), preplaviti (flood, waterlog), močvara (bog, fen, marsh, morass, quagmire), barski (paludal, uliginose, uliginous), bara (plash, pool, puddle). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pantano (bog, dam, Fen, Marsh, morass, moss, quagmire, reservoir), terreno pantanoso (marsh). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

swampu (marsh). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

träsk (bog, fen, flow, marsh, morass, sink, slough, sordidness), kärr (bog, fen, marsh, morass), dränka (drown, engulf, smother, submerge), översvämma (deluge, drown, float, flood, flow, infest, inundate, invade, overflow, overrun, overwhelm). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ทำให้แบกรับ าระ, ทำให้ท่วม, หนองน้ำ. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

batak (bog, boggy, gutter, in carey street, Marsh, mire, miry, morass, quag, quagmire, quicksand, sink, Slough). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

sьяgeюiklik (marsh), batga (mud, slime). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

засипати (assail, bestrew, bombard, deluge, shower, stud), занурюватися (dip, dive, douse, dowse, merge, plunge), заливати (bathe, fill in, overflow, overwhelm, steep, suffuse, wash, wash down), болото (back water, bog, mire, morass, ooze, quag, quagmire, slew, slue, sump, wash), драговина. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

đầm lầy (bog, marsh, morass, quag). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

siglen (bog, swing), gwern (alder grove, meadow), cors (bog). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Swamp

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

agam, sug, umah, umun. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

lama, lustrum, paludes, paludis, palus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Swamp

Derivations

Words beginning with "swamp": swamped, swamper, swampers, swampier, swampiest, swampiness, swampinesses, swamping, swampish, swampland, swamplands, swamps, swampy. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Swamp" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sapm, sawm, shamp, skamp, slamp, svamp, swame, swamk, swampe, swampt, swamy, swarp, swimp. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Swamp"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "swamp" (pronounced swÄ"mp)
3-Ä" m pchomp, comp, pomp, romp, stomp, Tromp.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Swamp

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-m-p-s-w"

-1 letter: amps, maps, maws, pams, paws, samp, spam, swam, swap, waps, wasp.

-2 letters: amp, asp, map, mas, maw, pam, pas, paw, sap, saw, spa, wap, was.

-3 letters: am, as, aw, ma, pa.

 Words containing the letters "a-m-p-s-w"
 

+1 letter: swamps, swampy, wampus.

 

+2 letters: impawns, swamped, swamper, wampish, wampums, warmups.

 

+3 letters: prewarms, spanworm, swampers, swampier, swamping, swampish, wampuses.

 

+4 letters: gapeworms, manpowers, moldwarps, spanworms, swampiest, swampland, tapeworms, wampished, wampishes.

 

+5 letters: clampdowns, superwoman, swampiness, swamplands, wampishing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Sounds
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Quotations: Speeches
13. Usage Frequency
14. Names: Frequency
15. Expressions
16. Expressions: Internet
17. Translations: Modern
18. Translations: Ancient
19. Derivations
20. Rhymes
21. Anagrams
22. Bibliography


  

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