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marshy

adjective as in swampy

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Example Sentences

The Pripyat River basin was marshy until industrialization intruded.

Apaches used what was once a marshy ciénaga as a water hole for centuries.

A damp mist rose from the river and the marshy ground about, and spread itself over the dreary fields.

The juncture was in a big, marshy, untillable flat, from which hills rose abruptly.

Eastwards it fell away into a marshy tract filling the angle of the two rivers and intersected by watercourses.

The land on the western side of the gulf is high and rocky; but the opposite shore is very low, and apparently marshy.

As in the low marshy ground at the mouths of the Liri and Volturno, malaria is very prevalent.

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On this page you'll find 12 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to marshy, such as: soggy, boggy, fenny, miry, moory, and mucky.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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