Synonyms for swamp
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1. swamp, swamplandnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   swampland

2. swampverb

   a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables

   "he was trapped in a medical swamp"

   Synonyms:
   swampland

3. swamp, drenchverb

   drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged

   "The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor"

   Synonyms:
   sop, douse, inundate, souse, deluge, imbrue, flood, soak, drench, dowse

4. deluge, flood, inundate, swampverb

   fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid

   "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"

   Synonyms:
   submerge, oversupply, flood out, glut, inundate, overwhelm, deluge, flood, drench

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1. swampnoun

   Synonyms:
   bog, fen, quagmire, morass, marsh, slough, spongy land, soft and wet ground

2. swampverb

   Synonyms:
   ingulf, sink, whelm, swallow up

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1. swampnoun

   Synonyms:
   marsh, morass, slough, quagmire, bog, fen, marish

   Associated words:
   paludine, paludinous, paludism, paludose, palustrine, draco, muck, effluvium, malaria, miasma

2. swampverb

   Synonyms:
   engulf, overwhelm, submerge

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1. List of paraphrases for "swamp":

   marsh, marshes, marshy, quagmire, wetland, marais, swampy, morass, swamps, bog, marshland, mire, fen, slough, sloughs, bayou, wetlands

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1. Cary Elwes:

   Ted Cruz represents, in my humble opinion, the whole fire swamp of Washington, in private they share their dismay at the man [ Donald Trump ], but in public they support everything he does, no matter how insane.

2. Ben Page:

   Even though they may be as likely to mention immigration as a big concern or access to benefits, ultimately the economy will swamp them, people talk about all these things, but ultimately: it's, am I going to keep my job?

3. Michael Cohen:

   We need to actually drain the swamp, we have to hold people accountable and I'm glad the courts did that today. But the best way we can do that is to elect new leaders in November.

4. Colby Covington:

   I just took care of Miami street trash, now it's time to take care of Louisiana swamp trash. Where you at, Dustin Poirier?

5. Derek Brown:

   Democrats, Republicans, we all hang out together in a weird way in this town, we're on the same plane, we're connected just by living here. Outside looking in, it seems like Washingtonians are embroiled in a constant battle, but it's not like that. It's not the swamp.