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31swamp — [swɒmp] verb I 1) [T] if someone is swamped, they have too much to deal with at one time Bookshops are always swamped with orders at Christmas.[/ex] 2) [T] if a place is swamped, there are very large numbers of people in it The hotel foyer was… …
32swamp — [[t]swɒmp[/t]] n. 1) ecl a tract of wet, spongy land, usu. with abundant vegetation 2) to flood or drench, esp. with water 3) naut. navig. to sink or fill (a boat) with water 4) to overwhelm, esp. to overwhelm with an excess of something: swamped …
33swamp — pelkė statusas T sritis ekologija ir aplinkotyra apibrėžtis Labai drėgnas sausumos plotas, apaugęs drėgmę mėgstančiais augalais, dažnai su durpių klodu. Pelkės susidaro, kai supelkėja sausuma arba kai užauga vandens telkinys. Pagal mitybos… …
34swamp — klampynė statusas T sritis ekologija ir aplinkotyra apibrėžtis Labai drėgnas pelkės plotas su skystu durpių klodu ir netvirta velėna. atitikmenys: angl. marsh; mire; swamp vok. Moor, n; Morast, m; Sumpf, m rus. болото, n; вязкость, f; топкое… …
35swamp — rova statusas T sritis ekologija ir aplinkotyra apibrėžtis Upės srovės arba bangų suskalautos medienos ir augalų liekanos. atitikmenys: angl. floating debris; mire; swamp vok. Sumpf, m rus. топь, f …
36swamp — Verb: To overcome; to overwhelm. To sink because filled with water. Noun: A marsh; a tract of wet land, usually partially covered by shallow waters. An area of land which is wet or marshy because depressed so as to receive the flow of surface… …
37swamp — n. & v. n. a piece of waterlogged ground; a bog or marsh. v. 1 a tr. overwhelm, flood, or soak with water. b intr. become swamped. 2 tr. overwhelm or make invisible etc. with an excess or large amount of something. Derivatives: swampy adj.… …
38Swamp pop — is a musical genre indigenous to the Acadiana region of south Louisiana and an adjoining section of southeast Texas. Created in the 1950s and early 1960s by teenaged Cajuns and black Creoles, it combines New Orleans style rhythm and blues,… …
39Swamp Yankee — is a colloquialism that has a variety of meanings. Generally, it refers to Yankees or WASPs (northeasterners with colonial ancestry) from rural Rhode Island and nearby eastern Connecticut and southeastern Massachusetts. The term Yankee connotes… …
40Swamp blackbird — Swamp Swamp, n. [Cf. AS. swam a fungus, OD. swam a sponge, D. zwam a fungus, G. schwamm a sponge, Icel. sv[ o]ppr, Dan. & Sw. swamp, Goth. swamms, Gr. somfo s porous, spongy.] Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not… …
