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swamps
verb(swamp)
to fill with or as if with water : inundate, submerge
swamps
verb(swamp)
to overwhelm numerically or by an excess of something : flood
swamps
verb(swamp)
to open by removing underbrush and debris
swamps
noun(swamp)
a wetland often partially or intermittently covered with water; especially : one dominated by woody vegetation
swamps
noun(swamp)
a tract of swamp
swamps
noun(swamp)
a difficult or troublesome situation or subject
swamps
geographical name(swamp)
river 1000 miles (1609 kilometers) long in southwest central Africa rising in central Angola and flowing south and east to empty into the Okavango Swamps or Okavango Delta (great marsh area north of Lake Ngami in northwestern Botswana)

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