| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | swamp |
| Synonyms: | fen, lowland, marsh, marshland, mire, morass, moss, peat, quag, quagmire, slough, sump, wetlands |
| Main Entry: | mire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | muck, morass |
| Synonyms: | bog, dirt, fen, glop, goo, gunk, marsh, moss, mud, ooze*, quagmire, quicksand, slime, swamp |
| Main Entry: | obliterate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy |
| Synonyms: | KO, X-out, annihilate, ax, black out, blot out, blue pencil, bog, cancel, cover, cut, defeat, delete, do in, efface, eliminate, eradicate, erase, expunge, exterminate, extirpate, finish, finish off, kill, knock off, knock out, level*, liquidate, mark out, nix, obscure, off, ravage, root out, rub off, rub out, scratch, scrub, shoot down, sink, smash, squash, take apart, take out*, torpedo, total*, trash*, wash out, waste, wipe off face of earth, wipe out, zap |
| Antonyms: | build, construct, create |
| Main Entry: | retard |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hinder, obstruct |
| Synonyms: | arrest, back off, baffle, balk, bog, bog down, brake, bring to screeching halt, check, choke, choke off, clog, close off, crimp, dawdle, decelerate, decrease, defer, delay, detain, down, encumber, falter, fetter, flag, hamper, handicap, hang up, hesitate, hold back, hold up, impede, lessen, let up, loaf, loiter, mire, poke, postpone, reduce, retardate, set back, shut down, shut off, slacken, slow down, slow up, stall, take down |
| Antonyms: | advance, help, push |
| Main Entry: | swamp |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wet land covered with vegetation |
| Synonyms: | bog, bottoms, everglade, fen, glade, holm, marsh, marshland, mire, moor, morass, mud, muskeg, peat bog, polder, quag, quagmire, slough, swale, swampland |
| Main Entry: | waste |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | land that is uncultivated |
| Synonyms: | badlands, barren, bog, brush, brushland, bush, desert, dust bowl, fen, jungle, marsh, marshland, moor, quagmire, solitude, swamp, tundra, void, wasteland, wild, wilderness, wilds |
| Notes: | wastage is loss through use such as wear, leakage, or decay; the gradual process of wasting; or an amount that is wasted -- while waste is loss through carelessness, inefficiency, or ignorance or another word for garbage or rubbish |
| Antonyms: | development |
| Main Entry: | moss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flowerless plant |
| Synonyms: | bog, lichen, morass, swamp |
| Main Entry: | marshland |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | swamp |
| Synonyms: | bog, bottoms, everglade, fen, glade, holm, marsh, mire, moor, morass, mud, muskeg, peat bog, polder, quag, quagmire, slough, swale, swampland, wetland |