English abbreviation dictionary - swamp
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~1 n land that is always very wet or slightly covered with water (- compare marsh) - swampy adj (swampy ground) ~2 v 1 usually passive to suddenly give someone a lot of work, problems etc to deal with (swamp sb with sth) (We've been swamped with calls since we put the ad in the paper.) 2 to suddenly cover something with a lot of water, especially in a way that causes damage (The shoreline was swamped by the high tides.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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(swamps, swamping, swamped) 1. A swamp is an area of very wet land with wild plants growing in it. N-VAR 2. If something swamps a place or object, it fills it with water. A rogue wave swamped the boat... VERB: V n 3. If you are swamped by things or people, you have more of them than you can deal with. He is swamped with work... VERB: usu passive, be V-ed ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. noun Etymology: perhaps alteration of Middle English sompe, from Middle Dutch somp morass; akin to Middle High German sumpf marsh, Greek somphos spongy Date: 1624 1. a wetland often partially or intermittently covered with water; especially one dominated by woody vegetation 2. a tract of ~ 3. a difficult or troublesome situation or subject • ~ adjective II. verb Date: 1784 transitive verb 1. a. to fill with or as if with water ; inundate, submerge b. to overwhelm numerically or by an excess of something ; flood ~ed with work 2. to open by removing underbrush and debris intransitive verb to become submerged ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. a piece of waterlogged ground; a bog or marsh. --v. 1 a tr. overwhelm, flood, or soak with water. b intr. become swamped. 2 tr. overwhelm or make invisible etc. with an excess or large amount of something. Derivatives swampy adj. (swampier, swampiest). Etymology: 17th c., = dial. swamp sunk (14th c.), prob. of Gmc orig. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) болото заболачивать(ся) 2) местное понижение угольного пласта 3) обрубать; вырубать to swamp out — подавлять (собственные шумы) ...Большой Англо-русский Русско-английский политехнический словарь
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1) болотоходный 2) заболачивать 3) заболотить 4) тех. заглушать - swamp gas - swamp tractor ...Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
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болото; лесное болото; топь, трясина – alder swamp – back swamp – lowland swamp – mangrove swamp – peat swamp – reed swamp – salt swamp – transitional swamp – upland swamp – wood swamp ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. болото, топь, трясина 2. заливать, затоплять a big eave swamped the boat —- большая волна залила лодку 3. погружаться, тонуть 4. засыпать, заваливать (письмами, заявлениями и т. п.) they swamped him with questions —- они засыпали его вопросами he was swamped with work —- он был завален работой 5. наводнять they swamped the village —- они наводнили всю деревню 6. губить he had debts enough to swamp any man —- у него было столько долгов, что это бы разорило любого 7. обыкн. pass засасывать 8. ам. очищать волок (от подлеска, хвороста и т. п.) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) болото, топь 2) attr. болотный; болотистый; swamp fever - малярия; swamp ore - болотная железная руда, лимонит Syn: see marsh 2. v. 1) заливать, затоплять (with); Last nights storm has swamped the wheat fields with rain. 2) usu. past part. засыпать, заваливать (письмами, заявлениями и т.п.) (with); The office has been swamped with complaints about the washing machines. 3) usu. past part. засасывать Syn: see flood ...Англо-русский словарь
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- 1624 (first used by Capt. John Smith, in reference to Virginia), perhaps from an O.E. cognate of O.N. svoppr "sponge, fungus," from P.Gmc. *swampuz; but traditionally connected with M.E. sompe "morass, swamp," probably from M.Du. somp or M.L.G. sump "swamp." The verb sense of "overwhelm, sink as if in a swamp" is first recorded 1818. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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