Толковый словарь английского языка - swamp
Swamp
swamp
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 a wetland often partially or intermittently covered with water, a tract of ~, a difficult or troublesome situation or subject, ~ adjective II. verb Date: 1784 transitive verb 1. to fill with or as if with water ; inundate , submerge , to overwhelm numerically or by an excess of something ; flood , to open by removing underbrush and debris, intransitive verb to become submerged
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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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