SWAMP
What does "SWAMP" mean?
An area of low, waterlogged ground, often wooded; or, as a verb, to overwhelm.
Meanings
- An area of low-lying, waterlogged ground, typically with trees and dense vegetation. Cypress trees rose out of the dark Louisiana swamp.
- To overwhelm with an excess of something; to inundate. The office was swamped with complaints after the outage.
- To flood or fill a boat with water, often capsizing it. A rogue wave swamped the small dinghy.
Did you know?
- Long dismissed as worthless 'wasteland' to be drained, swamps and other wetlands are now valued for storing carbon, filtering water, and absorbing floods that would otherwise hit towns downstream.
Word origin
Probably from a dialectal English word related to 'sump' and to Middle Low German 'swamp' (sponge, fungus); recorded in English from the early 17th century, notably in the American colonies.
Remember it
SWAMP starts like 'swim' but ends in a 'mp' that mires you - you don't swim a swamp, you get stuck in it.
A little poem
Brown water stands still-
the drowned trees keep on standing,
rooted in their grave.
haiku
Wordplay
- Why was the inbox like a marsh? Both got swamped and nothing could stay afloat.
What it teaches
What looks like wasteland is often quietly doing the work that keeps the dry land dry.
Quick facts
What does SWAMP mean?
An area of low, waterlogged ground, often wooded; or, as a verb, to overwhelm.
Is SWAMP a valid word?
Yes — SWAMP is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is SWAMP?
SWAMP has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does SWAMP come from?
Probably from a dialectal English word related to 'sump' and to Middle Low German 'swamp' (sponge, fungus); recorded in English from the early 17th century, notably in the American colonies.
What can SWAMP teach us?
What looks like wasteland is often quietly doing the work that keeps the dry land dry.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.