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. Christopher Wylie:

   One of the things that did provoke me to leave was the beginnings of discussions of voter disengagement, I have seen documents reference and I recall conversations that it was intended to focus on African-American voters, the company learned that there were segments of the population that responded to messages like 'drain the swamp' or images of border walls or indeed paranoia about the 'deep state' that weren't necessarily reflected in mainstream polling or mainstream political discourse that Steve Bannon was interested in to help build his movement.

2. President Trump:

   A large group of Hollywood actors and Washington media are consoling each other in a hotel ballroom in our nation's capital right now, they are gathered together for the White House Correspondents' Dinner without the president. And I cannot possibly be more thrilled than to be more than 100 miles away from Washington's swamp spending my evening with all of you and with a much, much larger crowd and much better people.

3. Norm Ornstein:

   Donald Trump was not really someone who emerged from the swamp on his own, there were decades that built towards the Trumpism that led to all of this.

4. Jon McNaughton:

   Trump endeavors to cross the ‘swamp’ of Washington DC as he carries the light of truth, hope, and prosperity. The murky water of the deep state is laced with dangerous vermin, perfectly willing to destroy American prosperity for their personal ideologies and financial gain.

5. President Trump:

   Let me be clear, Mr. President Trump, how can you drain the swamp if you’re the one who keeps muddying the waters ? You did n’t know about the $ 130,000 payment to a porn star, until you did.