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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | swamp |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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| Main Entry: | crowd |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cram, press into area |
| Synonyms: | bear, bunch, bundle, chock, cluster, congest, congregate, crush, deluge, elbow, flock, gather, huddle, jam, jam-pack, justle, mass, muster, overcrowd, pack, pack 'em in, pack like sardines, pile, push, ram, sardine, shove, squash, squeeze, squish, stream, surge, swamp, swarm, throng, top off, troop |
| Antonyms: | abandon, leave, retreat |
| Main Entry: | defeat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conquer in military manner |
| Synonyms: | ambush, annihilate, bar, bear down, beat, best, block, butcher, crush, decimate, demolish, discomfit, drown, entrap, finish off, halt, hinder, impede, lick, mow down, obliterate, obstruct, outflank, outmaneuver, overpower, overrun, overthrow, overwhelm, parry, prevail over, quell, reduce, repel, repress, repulse, roll back, rout, route, sack, scatter, shipwreck, sink, slaughter, smash, subdue, subjugate, suppress, surmount, swamp, torpedo, trample, trash, upset, vanquish, whip, wipe out |
| Notes: | decimate means to kill or destroy in large numbers; defeat means to win a victory over or to beat |
| Antonyms: | give up, lose, surrender |
| Main Entry: | deluge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | inundate with water |
| Synonyms: | douse, drench, drown, engulf, flood, flush, gush, overflow, overrun, overwhelm, pour, sluice, soak, sop, souse, stream, submerge, swamp, wet, whelm |
| Main Entry: | deluge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | overwhelm |
| Synonyms: | abound, crowd, engulf, flood, glut, inundate, overcome, overcrowd, overload, overrun, oversupply, snow under, snow*, swamp, teem |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | drown |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | submerge in liquid; submerge and die |
| Synonyms: | asphyxiate, deluge, dip, douse, drench, engulf, flood, go down, go under, immerse, inundate, knock over, obliterate, overcome, overflow, overpower, overwhelm, plunge, prostrate, sink, soak, sop, souse, stifle, suffocate, swamp, whelm, wipe out |
| Antonyms: | float, rescue, save |
| Main Entry: | dump |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | junkyard |
| Synonyms: | ash heap, cesspool, depot, dumping ground, garbage lot, junk pile, magazine, refuse heap, rubbish pile, swamp |
| Main Entry: | engulf |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | absorb, overwhelm |
| Synonyms: | bury, consume, deluge, drown, encompass, engross, envelop, flood, imbibe, immerse, inundate, overflow, overrun, overwhelm, plunge, submerge, swallow up, swamp, whelm |
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