swamp
US: /ˈswɑmp/, /ˈswɔmp/
UK: /swˈɒmp/
UK: /swˈɒmp/
English Vietnamese dictionary
swamp /swɔmp/
- danh từ
- đầm lầy
- đầm lầy
- ngoại động từ
- làm ngập, làm ướt đẫm
- tràn ngập, che khuất; làm mất tác dụng
- (động tính từ quá khứ) bị ngập vào, bị búi vào
- to be swamped with work: bị búi vào công việc
- nội động từ
- bị ngập, bị sa lầy
- bị tràn ngập, bị che khuất; bị làm mất tác dụng
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb
+ noun [C, U] an area of ground that is very wet or covered with water and in which plants, trees, etc. are growing: tropical swamps
swampy adjective: swampy forests / ground
+ verb [VN] [often passive]
1 ~ sb/sth (with sth) to make sb have more of sth than they can deal with
Synonym: INUNDATE
The department was swamped with job applications. + In summer visitors swamp the island.
2 to fill or cover sth with a lot of water: The little boat was swamped by the waves.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 bog, fen, marsh, quagmire, morass, moor, Chiefly Literary slough, Scots and No. Eng. dialect moss, So. US everglade:
The draining of swamps destroys the breeding places of mosquitoes.
v.
2 overwhelm, overcome, flood, inundate, submerge, immerse, deluge, overload, overtax, overburden, Colloq snow under:
I'm so swamped with work I'm sleeping at the office.
3 scuttle, sink, founder:
A huge wave swamped the boat and she sank quickly.
Concise English dictionary
swamps|swamped|swampingswɑmp /swɒmp
noun
+low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
+a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables
verb
+drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
+fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
