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You can make 34 words from swamp according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of swamp

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Definitions and meaning of swamp

swamp

Alternative forms

• swomp (obsolete)

Etymology

From a fusion of Middle English swam (“swamp, muddy pool, bog, marsh”, also “fungus, mushroom”), from Old English swamm (“mushroom, fungus, sponge”), and Middle English sompe (“marsh, morass”), from Middle Dutch somp, sump (“marsh, swamp”), or Middle Low German sump (“marsh, swamp”), from Old Saxon *sump (“swamp, marsh”); all from Proto-West Germanic *sump, from Proto-Germanic *sumpaz.

Cognate with Dutch zwamp (“swamp, marsh, fen”), Middle Low German swamp (“sponge, mushroom”), Dutch zomp (“swamp, lake, marshy place”), German Low German Sump (“swamp, bog, marsh”), German Sumpf (“swamp”), Swedish sump (“swamp”). Related also to Dutch zwam (“fungus, punk, tinder”), German Schwamm (“mushroom, fungus, sponge”), Swedish svamp (“mushroom, fungus, sponge”), Icelandic svampur, sveppur (“fungus”), Gothic 𐍃𐍅𐌿𐌼𐍃𐌻 (swumsl, “a ditch”). Related to sump, swim.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /swɒmp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /swɑmp/
• Rhymes: -ɒmp

Noun

swamp (plural swamps)

1. A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.
2. A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures which have adapted specifically to that environment.
3. (figurative) A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.

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Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: swampu
• → Dutch: zwamp

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See also

• bog
• marsh
• moor

Verb

swamp (third-person singular simple present swamps, present participle swamping, simple past and past participle swamped)

1. To drench or fill with water.

2. (figurative) To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
3. (figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.

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• wamps