swamp

Meaning

1. A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.
2. A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures which have adapted specifically to that environment.
3. A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.

swamp

marsh

bog

morass

fen

quagmire

wetland

marshland

flood

mire

inundate

overwhelm

pond

lake

quag

swampland

submerge

slough

moor

drench

wetlands

deluge

mud

heath

pool

engulf

bayou

sink

Moor

swale

wallaby

peatland

low

dampen

irrigate

water

marsh land

reservoir

small lake

basin

everglade

plunge

overburden

overload

slash

waterlog

glade

overflow

bog land

fen land

marshy area

moss land

muckland

swamp hickory

swamp land

swamped ground

swampy ground

submergence

submersion

depression

overgrow

watering place

fill

fill up

fulfill

thicket

jungle

creek bed

flat country

bogland

carr

clay

lagoon

hole

reeds

shallow water

hollow

puddle

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/swɒmp/

From a fusion of Middle English swam (“swamp, muddy pool, bog, marsh”, also “fungus, mushroom”), from Old English swamm (“mushroom, fungus, sponge”), and Middle English sompe (“marsh, morass”), from Middle Dutch somp, sump (“marsh, swamp”), or Middle Low German sump (“marsh, swamp”), from Old Saxon *sump (“swamp, marsh”); all from Proto-West Germanic *sump, from Proto-Germanic *sumpaz. Cognate with Dutch zwamp (“swamp, marsh, fen”), Middle Low German swamp (“sponge, mushroom”), Dutch zomp (“swamp, lake, marshy place”), German Low German Sump (“swamp, bog, marsh”), German Sumpf (“swamp”), Swedish sump (“swamp”). Related also to Dutch zwam (“fungus, punk, tinder”), German Schwamm (“mushroom, fungus, sponge”), Swedish svamp (“mushroom, fungus, sponge”), Icelandic svampur, sveppur (“fungus”), Gothic 𐍃𐍅𐌿𐌼𐍃𐌻 (swumsl, “a ditch”). Related to sump, swim.