Morass

Definition: Morass

Morass

Noun

1. A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot.

Date "morass" was first used: 1655. (references)

Etymology: Morass \Mo*rass"\, noun. [from Old English expression marras, mareis (perh. through Dutch moeras), from French marais, probably from Latin mare sea, in LL., any body of water; but perhaps influenced by some German word. See Mere lake, and compare to Marsh.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Chemistry	Soft, spongy, porous deposits of iron oxides which form in shallow lakes, bogs, swamps, etc. , through the oxydising agencies of algae, bacteria, etc. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonyms: Morass

Synonyms: mire (n), quagmire (n). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: swamping (chemistry).

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Marsh	Noun: marsh, swamp, morass, marish, moss, fen, bog, quagmire, slough, sump, wash; mud, squash, slush; baygall, cienaga, jhil, vlei.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Morass

English words defined with "morass": Jeel ♦ regular ♦ veritable. (references)

Specialty definitions using "morass": Clergyman. (references)

Etymologies containing "morass": marsh. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	From Tribulation to Triumph: A Black Woman's Odyssey Through the Tumult and Morass (reference) The job support machine : a critique of the subsidy morass (reference) The Public School Morass : Problems, Analysis & Solutions (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Nigeria	Although Abacha's takeover was initially welcomed by many Nigerians who thought he could lead the country out of its morass, disenchantment grew rapidly. (references)
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"Morass" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Morass" is used about 71 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	71	39,674

Expression using "morass": morass ore. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "morass"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		moçal (backwater, bayou, bog, Fen, Mars, Marsh, mire, muskeg, quagmire, slew, Slough, swamp), kënetë (backwater, bog, Fen, Marsh, moor, muskeg, quag, quagmire, Slough), batak (hole, mire, sink, Slough). (various references)

Arabic		‏مستنقع (bog, fen, marsh, marshland, mire, moor, moss, ooze, patch, pond, quag, quagmire, slew, slough, sump, swamp), ‏تشوش (addle, become confused, confusion, fog, fogginess, incoherence, mix up, muddling, perplexity, perturbation, pother, promiscuity, ramp, ravel, tangle), ‏عائق (balk, bar, barrier, clog, deterrent, difficulty, disadvantage, drag, embarrassment, encumbrance, fencing, hamper, handicap, hindrance, impediment, inconvenience, interference, jam, liability, obstruction, obstructive, restraint, setback, shackle, stick, stumbling block, stymie, tie, trammel, traverse), ‏إرتباك (awkwardness, bewilderment, confusion, constraint, disruption, distraction, embarrassment, foolishness, involvement, mystification, nonplus, perplexity, pink, puzzle, puzzlement, quandary, self consciousness, shame, shyness, spot, tangle, uneasiness), ‏ركام (bank, cumulus, drift, heap, jumble, mess, moraine, mound, pile, stuff), ‏شرك (booby trap, catch, cobwebby, decoy, entanglement, gin, hook, let smb. into, mantrap, net, paneling, pitfall, polytheism, snare, trammel, trap). (various references)

Bulgarian		тресавище (bog, mire, moor, ooze, quag, quagmire, sink, slew, swamp), блато (backwater, bog, hag, mere, mire, muskeg, pan, pool, swamp, water hole). (various references)

Chinese		沼泽 (bog, Boggy, marsh, slew, slews, swamp). (various references)

Czech		moèál (bog, quag, quagmire, Slough, swamp), bahno (mud, ooze, quag, quagmire, sludge, wash), bažina (bog, Fen, Marsh, moss, quag, quagmire, Slough, swamp). (various references)

Danish		myremalm (bog iron, bog iron ore, bog ore, ironstone, lake ore, limnite, limonite, marsh ore, meadow ore, ortstein, swamp ore). (various references)

Dutch		moeraserts (bog iron, bog iron ore, bog ore, ironstone, lake ore, limnite, limonite, marsh ore, meadow ore, ortstein, swamp ore). (various references)

Farsi		مرداب (Backwater, Lagoon, Marsh, Mere, Quagmire, Swamp, Swampland), باتلاق (Bog, Marsh, Mire, Quagmire, Slop, Slough, Swamp, Swampland). (various references)

Finnish		suomalmi (bog iron ore, bog ore, lake ore, limnite, marsh ore, meadow ore, swamp ore), järvimalmi (lake ore, limnite, marsh ore, meadow ore, swamp ore). (various references)

French		minerai des prairies, minerai des lacs, marais, marécage, trappe, obstacle, fatras, embrouillage, bourbier. (various references)

German		morast (bog, mire, quagmire, Slough, slush). (various references)

Greek		έλοσ (glade, Marsh, moor, quagmire, swalle, swamp), βάλτοσ (bayou, bog, mire, moor, quagmire, swalle, swamp), λιμναίο κοίτασμα (lake ore, limnite, marsh ore, meadow ore, swamp ore). (various references)

Hebrew		בצ�" (bog, mire, swamp), רקק (bog, mire, puddle, swamp). (various references)

Hungarian		ingovány (moor, moorland, quag, quagmire, slough, swamp, tarn), posvány (moss, swamp), mocsár (bog, Fen, Marsh, marshland, mire, moor, moore, moorland, moss, muskeg, Slough, sough, swampland, tarn, wash). (various references)

Italian		pantano (bog, mire, ooze, quagmire, Slough, swamp). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		泥�"�" (morass of mud). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		どろ�"�" (morass of mud). (various references)

Manx		boglagh (boggy, quagmire, swamp; oozy). (various references)

Pig Latin		orassmay

Portuguese		paul (marsh, moor, moss, muskeg, quagmire, sough), pântano (bog, fen, flush, marish, marsh, mere, moor, muskeg, quag, quagmire, sough, swamp), limonite (gubbin, lake ore, limnite, marsh ore, meadow ore, swamp ore), lameiro (quag, slough), charco (bog, catchment basin, dash, dub, fen, marsh, mire, moor, plash, pond, pool, puddle, quag, quagmire, sink, slough, swamp, wash), atoleiro (bog, hag, mire, puddle, quag, quagmire, slough, swamp). (various references)

Romanian		mocirlã (bog, Marsh, sink, slime, slush), mlaştinã (bog, Fen, Marsh, mere, mire, moor, puddle, quagmire, slop, Slough, swamp), situaţie grea (distress), baltã (bog, Fen, lake, mere, moor, plash, pool, puddle, slop, Slough, swamp), ananghie (bay, difficulty, hardship, pinch, trouble, want), încurcãturã (abashment, confusion, difficulty, encumbrance, entanglement, fix, hash, involution, involvement, loss, lost, mess, mire, mishmash, perplexity, pretty kettle of fish, puzzle, scrape, stew, tangle, trouble, upset). (various references)

Russian		болото (bog, marsh, mire, moss, muskeg, quag, quagmire, sump, swamp, swampland, wetland). (various references)

Scottish		lòn (food, lawn, marsh, meadow, pool, provision). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		močvara (bog, fen, marsh, quagmire, swamp), baruština. (various references)

Spanish		pantano (bog, dam, Fen, Marsh, moss, quagmire, reservoir, swamp). (various references)

Swedish		träsk (bog, fen, flow, marsh, sink, slough, sordidness, swamp), myr (Fen, mire), moras (marsh, quag, quagmire, swamp), kärr (bog, fen, Marsh, swamp). (various references)

Thai		สถานการ�"์ที่ยุ่งยาก สับสน หรือเป็นปัญหา, หล่ม (mire). (various references)

Turkish		sazlık (reed-bed, reeds, reedy, rush-bed, sedge), bataklık (bog, boggy, everglade, Fen, Marsh, moss, muskeg, quag, quagmire, quicksand, sink, Slough, swamp, swampy), batak (bog, boggy, gutter, in carey street, Marsh, mire, miry, quag, quagmire, quicksand, sink, Slough, swamp). (various references)

Ukrainian		трясовина (bog, mire, quagmire), болото (back water, bog, mire, ooze, quag, quagmire, slew, slue, sump, swamp, wash). (various references)

Vietnamese		bãi lầy (bog), đầm lầy (bog, marsh, quag, swamp). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Dutch	700-Modern	moeras. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	marais. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "morass": morasses, morassy. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Morass" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: joras, Mehras, merss, midases, Mierassa, Moars, moraes, morais, moras, morasse, Morasso, morates, moravsky, Morawski, Morazn, Morazo, Morbs, Morias, moris, morish, morosus, Morrises, morrish, Morsa, Morss, Moruzzi, Morysse, Motasse, mras, mrass, mtrnas, murashu, murats, murazzi, Mursa, Omrahs, orass. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "morass" (pronounced mera"s)
3	-er a" s	harass.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-m-o-r-s-s"
	-1 letter: moras, roams, saros, soars, somas, soras.
	-2 letters: arms, mars, mass, moas, mora, mors, moss, oars, osar, ossa, rams, roam, roms, soar, soma, sora.
	-3 letters: arm, ars, ass, mar, mas, moa, mor, mos, oar, oms, ora, ors, ram, ras, rom, som, sos.
	-4 letters: am, ar, as, ma, mo, om, or, os, so.
	Words containing the letters "a-m-o-r-s-s"
	+1 letter: morassy, orgasms, ramsons, ransoms.
	+2 letters: amorists, ausforms, crossarm, gossamer, isograms, maestros, mayoress, morasses, mosasaur, oralisms, ostmarks, prosaism, prosomas, samovars, sarcomas, solarism, stardoms, transoms, tsardoms.
	+3 letters: acrosomes, acrotisms, algorisms, amauroses, amaurosis, ambrosias, amortises, angstroms, aphorisms, armorless, atomisers, atropisms, boyarisms, capsomers, caseworms, classroom, commissar, crossarms, crossbeam, dramshops, foremasts, gossamers, gossamery, isomerase, mariposas, marmosets, masonries, mesocarps, misfeasor, mislabors, monsteras, moralises, moralisms, moralists, mosasaurs, organisms, ostracism, outsmarts, paroxysms, pastromis, postmarks, prosaisms, ramshorns, ransomers, rhamnoses, romanises, rosariums, royalisms, sagamores, salerooms, salesroom, sandstorm, sandworms, sarcosome, scleromas, seadromes, shamrocks, solarisms, solariums, sonograms, spanworms, sportsman, swordsman, sycamores, washrooms.
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