From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Swamp \Swamp\, noun [Cf. AS. swam a fungus, OD. swam a sponge, D. zwam a fungus, G. schwamm a sponge, Icel. sv["o]ppr, Dan. & Sw. swamp, Goth. swamms, Gr. somfo's porous, spongy.] Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.
Gray swamps and pools, waste places of the hern. --Tennyson.
A swamp differs from a bog and a marsh in producing trees and shrubs, while the latter produce only herbage, plants, and mosses. --Farming Encyc. (E. Edwards, Words).
{Swamp blackbird}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Redwing} (b) .
{Swamp cabbage} (Bot.), skunk cabbage.
{Swamp deer} (Zo["o]l.), an Asiatic deer ({Rucervus Duvaucelli}) of India.
{Swamp hen}. (Zo["o]l.) (a) An Australian azure-breasted bird ({Porphyrio bellus}); -- called also {goollema}. (b) An Australian water crake, or rail ({Porzana Tabuensis}); -- called also {little swamp hen}. (c) The European purple gallinule.
{Swamp honeysuckle} (Bot.), an American shrub ({Azalea viscosa} syn. {Rhododendron viscosa} or {Rhododendron viscosum}) growing in swampy places, with fragrant flowers of a white color, or white tinged with rose; -- called also {swamp pink} and {white swamp honeysuckle}.
{Swamp hook}, a hook and chain used by lumbermen in handling logs. Cf. {Cant hook}.
{Swamp itch}. (Med.) See {Prairie itch}, under {Prairie}.
{Swamp laurel} (Bot.), a shrub ({Kalmia glauca}) having small leaves with the lower surface glaucous.
{Swamp maple} (Bot.), red maple. See {Maple}.
{Swamp oak} (Bot.), a name given to several kinds of oak which grow in swampy places, as swamp Spanish oak ({Quercus palustris}), swamp white oak ({Q. bicolor}), swamp post oak ({Q. lyrata}).
{Swamp ore} (Min.), bog ore; limonite.
{Swamp partridge} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several Australian game birds of the genera {Synoicus} and {Excalfatoria}, allied to the European partridges.
{Swamp robin} (Zo["o]l.), the chewink.
{Swamp sassafras} (Bot.), a small North American tree of the genus {Magnolia} ({M. glauca}) with aromatic leaves and fragrant creamy-white blossoms; -- called also {sweet bay}.
{Swamp sparrow} (Zo["o]l.), a common North American sparrow ({Melospiza Georgiana}, or {M. palustris}), closely resembling the song sparrow. It lives in low, swampy places.
{Swamp willow}. (Bot.) See {Pussy willow}, under {Pussy}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Swamp \Swamp\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Swamped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Swamping}.]
1. To plunge or sink into a swamp.
2. (Naut.) To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.
3. Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
The Whig majority of the house of Lords was swamped by the creation of twelve Tory peers. --J. R. Green.
Having swamped himself in following the ignis fatuus of a theory. --Sir W. Hamilton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Swamp \Swamp\, verb (used without an object)
1. To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.
2. To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog [syn: {swampland}]
2: a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables; "he was trapped in a medical swamp"
verb
1: drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged; "The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor" [syn: {drench}]
2: fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind" [syn: {deluge}, {flood}, {inundate}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
137 Moby Thesaurus words for "swamp": baygall, be prodigal with, bind, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, cascade, cataract, cesspool, cloaca, cloaca maxima, clutch, complication, crunch, deluge, dip, drain, drown, duck, dump, dunk, embarrassing position, embarrassment, engulf, everglade, fen, fenland, fine how-do-you-do, float, flood, flood the market, flow on, founder, garbage dump, glade, hell to pay, hobble, hog wallow, holm, hot water, how-do-you-do, imbroglio, immerse, inundate, jam, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, mere, mess, mire, mix, moor, moorland, morass, moss, mud, mud flat, overbrim, overburden, overcome, overdose, overequip, overflow, overfurnish, overlavish, overload, overprovender, overprovide, overprovision, overrun, oversell, overstock, oversupply, overtax, overwhelm, parlous straits, pass, peat bog, pickle, pinch, plight, pour on, pour out, pour over, predicament, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, purgatory, quag, quagmire, quicksand, rain, run over, salt marsh, scrape, scuttle, septic tank, sewer, shaking, sink, slob land, slop, slosh, slough, sluice, snow under, sough, spill, spill out, spill over, spot, squeeze, stew, sticky wicket, strait, straits, submerge, sump, swale, swampland, sweep, taiga, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, tricky spot, unholy mess, view, wallow, wash, whelm
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