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| Main Entry: | swamp |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wet land covered with vegetation |
| Synonyms: | bog, fen, glade, marsh, mire, moor, morass, mud, quagmire, bottoms, everglade, holm, marshland, muskeg, peat bog, polder, quag, slough, swale, swampland |
| Main Entry: | swamp |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | overwhelm, flood |
| Synonyms: | beset, besiege, crowd, drench, drown, engulf, inundate, overflow, overload, satiate, saturate, sink, snow*, submerge, surfeit, upset, wash, overcrowd, submerse, swallow up, waterlog, whelm |
| Antonyms: | pass up, underwhelm |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | swamp |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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| Main Entry: | crowd |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cram, press into area |
| Synonyms: | bear, bunch, bundle, chock, cluster, congest, congregate, crush, deluge, elbow, flock, gather, huddle, jam, jam-pack, justle, mass, muster, overcrowd, pack, pack 'em in, pack like sardines, pile, push, ram, sardine, shove, squash, squeeze, squish*, stream, surge, swamp, swarm, throng, top off, troop |
| Antonyms: | abandon, leave, retreat |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | drown |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | submerge in liquid; submerge and die |
| Synonyms: | asphyxiate, deluge, dip, douse, drench, engulf, flood, go down, go under, immerse, inundate, obliterate, overcome, overflow, overpower, overwhelm, plunge, prostrate, sink, soak, sop, souse, stifle, suffocate, swamp, wipe out, knock over, whelm |
| Antonyms: | float, rescue, save |
| Main Entry: | engulf |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | absorb, overwhelm |
| Synonyms: | bury, consume, deluge, drown, encompass, engross, envelop, flood, imbibe, immerse, inundate, overflow, overrun, overwhelm, plunge, submerge, swamp, swallow up, whelm |
| Main Entry: | flood |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | inundate or submerge |
| Synonyms: | choke, deluge, drown, engulf, fill, flow, glut, gush, immerse, overflow, overwhelm, rush, saturate, surge, swamp, swarm, sweep, brim over, oversupply, pour over, whelm |
| Main Entry: | inundate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | drown, overwhelm |
| Synonyms: | deluge, dunk, engulf, flood, glut, immerse, overflow, overrun, snow*, submerge, swamp, pour down on, whelm |
| Antonyms: | underwhelm |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | master |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | learn; become proficient |
| Synonyms: | acquire, bone up*, comprehend, cram, grasp, grind, hit the books*, learn the ropes*, pick up, study, swamp*, understand, beat the game, beat the system, bury yourself in, excel in, gain mastery, get down cold, get down pat, get hold of, get the hang of, get the knack of, megastudy |
| Antonyms: | be ignorant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | muck, morass |
| Synonyms: | bog, dirt, fen, goo*, marsh, moss, mud, ooze*, quagmire, slime*, swamp, glop, gunk, quicksand |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | morass |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bog; mess |
| Synonyms: | chaos, confusion, fen, jam, jungle, knot, labyrinth, marsh, maze, mesh, mix-up, muddle, quagmire, snarl, swamp, tangle, web, skein |
| Antonyms: | order, organization |
| Main Entry: | overflow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pour out, flood |
| Synonyms: | brim, cascade, cover, deluge, discharge, drain, drown, engulf, gush, inundate, issue, jet, leak, overrun, pour, rush, shed, shower, slop, slosh, soak, spill, spout, spray, spurt, squirt, submerge, surge, swamp, water, wave, well, wet, bubble over, fall over, irrupt, overbrim, overtop, run over, spill over, well over, whelm |
| Main Entry: | overpower |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | beat; get the upper hand |
| Synonyms: | bear down, blank, bulldoze*, bury, clobber, conquer, cream*, crush, defeat, drown, drub*, knock out*, murder*, overcome, overthrow, overwhelm, prostrate, put away*, quell, reduce, rout, smash*, subdue, subjugate, swamp*, total*, trash*, trounce, vanquish, waste*, wax*, beat down, blow away, immobilize, lay one out, roll over, shellack, shut off*, take care of, take out*, torpedo*, whelm |
| Antonyms: | surrender, yield |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rout |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | defeat overwhelmingly |
| Synonyms: | bash, beat, bulldoze*, bury*, chase, clobber, conquer, cream*, crush, destroy, discomfit, dispel, expel, finish*, hunt, kill*, lambaste*, murder*, outmaneuver, overpower, overthrow, repulse, scatter, scuttle, shut out*, skunk*, subdue, subjugate, swamp*, total*, trounce, vanquish, wallop, wax*, whip, wipe out*, worst, zap*, blow out of water, clean up on, cut to pieces, drive off, larrup*, put to flight, torpedo*, wipe off map |
| Notes: | a rout is a disorderly crowd of people or an overwhelming defeat; a root is the usually underground organ of a plant that lacks buds or leaves or nodes and absorbs water and mineral salts - or the form of a word after all affixes are removed; a route is an established line of travel or access - or a road, course, or way for travel from one place to another |
| Antonyms: | win |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | submerge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dunk in liquid |
| Synonyms: | deluge, descend, dip, douse, drench, drown, duck, engulf, flood, go down, go under, immerse, impregnate, inundate, overflow, overwhelm, plunge, sink, sound, souse, subside, swamp, submerse, whelm |
| Antonyms: | dry, surface |
| Main Entry: | trounce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | defeat overwhelmingly |
| Synonyms: | bash, beat, blank, bury, bust*, cap, clobber, conquer, cook one's goose, crush, drub, dust*, fix one's wagon, flog, hammer*, lambaste*, lather*, lick*, make mincemeat of, murder, overcome, overwhelm, paste*, pommel*, put away*, rout, swamp, thrash*, total*, trash*, walk over, wallop*, waste*, wax*, whip, win, wipe off the mat |
| Antonyms: | fail, forfeit, lose |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | defeat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conquer in military manner |
| Synonyms: | ambush, annihilate, bar, bear down, beat, best, block, butcher, crush, decimate, demolish, discomfit, drown, entrap, halt, hinder, impede, lick, obliterate, obstruct, outflank, outmaneuver, overpower, overrun, overthrow, overwhelm, parry, quell, reduce, repel, repress, repulse, rout, route, sack, scatter, sink, slaughter, smash, subdue, subjugate, suppress, surmount, swamp, trample, trash, upset, vanquish, whip, wipe out, finish off, mow down, prevail over, roll back, shipwreck, torpedo* |
| Antonyms: | lose, surrender, give up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deluge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | inundate with water |
| Synonyms: | douse, drench, drown, engulf, flood, flush, gush, overflow, overrun, overwhelm, pour, sluice, soak, sop, souse, stream, submerge, swamp, wet, whelm |
| Main Entry: | dump |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | junkyard |
| Synonyms: | depot, magazine, swamp, ash heap, cesspool, dumping ground, garbage lot, junk pile, refuse heap, rubbish pile |
| Main Entry: | load |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | burden, saddle |
| Synonyms: | arrange, ballast, bear, carry, charge, choke, cram, fill, flood, freight, glut, gorge, heap, jam*, lumber, mass, pack, pile, place, stack, store, stow, stuff, surfeit, swamp, top, weigh, weigh down, weight, chock, containerize, heap up, lade, oversupply, pile it on, pile up, pour in, put aboard, ram in, top off |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, benefit, bless, help |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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