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Swamp - 20 thesaurus results
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
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Main Entry: swamp
Part of Speech: noun, verb
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Adjectives:
boggy, fenny, marsh, marshy, moorish, moory, muddy, paludal, palustrine, plashy, poachy, quaggy, sloppy, soft, squashy, swampy, uliginose
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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