I. noun
wet spongy land saturated and sometimes partially covered with water
hunted alligators in the Florida swamps
Synonyms: baygall, bog, fen, marsh, marshland, mire, morass, ||moss, muskeg, ||purgatory, ||puxy, quag, quagmire, slough, ||sump, swampland, ||swang, ||vlei
Related Word: bottoms, ||holm; ||glade; ||jheel; quake ooze; shaking prairie, trembling prairie
II. verb
1.
Synonyms: deluge 1, drown, engulf, flood, inundate, overflow, overwhelm, submerge, whelm
2.
Synonyms: deluge 3, flood, overwhelm, whelm