swamp | Definition of swamp

swamp

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of swamp

1 spongy land saturated or partially covered with water

be careful in the swamp, because alligators sometimes lurk there

Synonyms of swamp

bog, fen, marsh, marshland, mire, moor, morass, muskeg, slough (also slew), swampland, wash, wetland

Words Related to swamp

guck (or gook), muck, mud, ooze, slime, slop, sludge, slush

2 a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape

with her credit cards maxed out, and the making of minimum payments a challenge, debt seemed to be an ever-deepening swamp

Synonyms of swamp

bind, box, catch-22, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, impasse, jackpot [chiefly West], jam, mire, pickle, predicament, quagmire, rabbit hole, rattrap, spot, sticky wicket

Words Related to swamp

difficulty, node

hot water, soup

pinch, plight, quandary, scrape, trouble

deadlock, halt, logjam, stalemate, standstill

clutch, crisis, crossroad, emergency, exigency, juncture, strait

Phrases Synonymous with swamp