Synonyms for swamp
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1. swamp, swamplandnoun

   low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog

   Synonyms:
   swampland

2. swampverb

   a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables

   "he was trapped in a medical swamp"

   Synonyms:
   swampland

3. swamp, drenchverb

   drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged

   "The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor"

   Synonyms:
   sop, douse, inundate, souse, deluge, imbrue, flood, soak, drench, dowse

4. deluge, flood, inundate, swampverb

   fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid

   "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"

   Synonyms:
   submerge, oversupply, flood out, glut, inundate, overwhelm, deluge, flood, drench

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1. swampnoun

   Synonyms:
   bog, fen, quagmire, morass, marsh, slough, spongy land, soft and wet ground

2. swampverb

   Synonyms:
   ingulf, sink, whelm, swallow up

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1. swampnoun

   Synonyms:
   marsh, morass, slough, quagmire, bog, fen, marish

   Associated words:
   paludine, paludinous, paludism, paludose, palustrine, draco, muck, effluvium, malaria, miasma

2. swampverb

   Synonyms:
   engulf, overwhelm, submerge

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1. List of paraphrases for "swamp":

   marsh, marshes, marshy, quagmire, wetland, marais, swampy, morass, swamps, bog, marshland, mire, fen, slough, sloughs, bayou, wetlands

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1. Michael Cohen:

   Doc Ronny -- you know, we call Doc Ronny Doc Ronny, we call Doc Ronny Doc Ronny. Doc Ronny's an admiral, highly respected, a real leader, you know, these are all false accusations that were made. These are false and they're trying to destroy a man. By the way, I did say welcome to Washington. Welcome to the swamp. Welcome to the world of politics.

2. President Donald J. Trump:

   James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper, we're draining the swamp, folks.

3. Mitch McConnell:

   Swamp captain Mitch McConnell has created millions of jobs for China people. While doing so, Mitch McConnell has gotten rich, in fact, Don Blankenship China family has given him tens of millions of dollars.

4. Tim Scott:

   Loch Ness Monster of the Swamp.

5. Christopher Wylie:

   One of the things that did provoke me to leave was the beginnings of discussions of voter disengagement, I have seen documents reference and I recall conversations that it was intended to focus on African-American voters, the company learned that there were segments of the population that responded to messages like 'drain the swamp' or images of border walls or indeed paranoia about the 'deep state' that weren't necessarily reflected in mainstream polling or mainstream political discourse that Steve Bannon was interested in to help build his movement.