Noun Alligators live in the lowland swamps. be careful in the swamp, because alligators sometimes lurk there Verb The sea level rose and swamped the coastal villages. The boat sank after it was swamped by waves.
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Noun
There was no need for the snakes to bask in the sun to get warm when the ambient temperature of the swamp was in the 80s. Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2022 The Trump mob, in all its populist hubris, went after these women who live at a far distance from the deep state, the Washington swamp and the coastal elite. Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 21 June 2022 This relentless year-on-year growth is resulting in many organizations ending up with a data swamp rather than a data lake. Jakub Lamik, Forbes, 8 June 2022 Growing up, the Maryland native spent time working for his father’s construction business, but also learned to play guitar in the woods near his home, which is near a swamp and a gun range. Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 17 May 2022 In 2017, Minto had bought roughly two thousand acres of brush and swamp, about seven miles from the coast, across the street from the Ladies Professional Golf Association’s headquarters and its pair of signature courses. Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022 Until the late 1800s, 13,000 acres of swamp and forest covered part of eastern Indiana and was home to myriad types of flora and fauna. Sarah Schutte, National Review, 27 Feb. 2022 The refuge is 144,000 acres of tree islands and sawgrass ridges and cattail mires and cypress swamp and sloughs that run like fluid seams through it all. Kimberly Miller, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2021 Today, visitors can explore natural sand pine scrub, hardwood swamp and wet flatwood habitats. Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 15 Oct. 2021
Verb
Rising seas fueled by climate change to swamp $34B in US real estate in just 30 years, analysis finds. Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2022 But over the short-term, the demand side effects totally swamp the supply slide effects.CBS News, 31 July 2022 There’s a satisfying bass that isn’t too enthusiastic and doesn’t swamp the other frequencies. Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 15 May 2022 And that heat radiation would swamp the signals from the very most distant galaxies.Quanta Magazine, 18 May 2022 The media and politicians warn constantly of rising sea levels that would swamp coastlines from Florida to Bangladesh. Steven E. Koonin, WSJ, 17 Feb. 2022 So far, Newsom holds the upper hand, thanks to the spotlight afforded to an incumbent and a $25-million reelection war chest that could easily swamp his challengers. Phil Willonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2022 Rising sea levels of a couple of feet could swamp it, forcing its 380,000 residents to relocate. Greg Melville, Outside Online, 13 May 2014 Then, interest expense could swamp the federal budget. Shawn Tully, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2021 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
perhaps alteration of Middle English sompe, from Middle Dutch somp morass; akin to Middle High German sumpf marsh, Greek somphos spongy