as in marsh
spongy land saturated or partially covered with water
much of the county's swampland was drained for agriculture
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Recent Examples of swampland
In 1900, engineers reversed the flow of the Chicago River, and 45 years before that, lawmakers decided to physically elevate the city from the swampland on which it was built.
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
The view changes with it—fields of cotton and trees rising out of swampland.
—Emma John, AFAR Media, 7 Jan. 2025
The soldiers under Brigadier General Francis Marion rode this unflappable horse through swampland to defeat the British army, marking a turn in the war effort.
—Jessica Farthing, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2024
The founders of Macondo wade through swampland in One Hundred Years of SolitudeMauro González—Netflix
Solitude traces the rise and fall of a family, a house, a town—and, in its most conspicuous layer of symbolism, a civilization—over the course of, yes, 100 years.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 2 Dec. 2024
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
The view changes with it—fields of cotton and trees rising out of swampland.
—Emma John, AFAR Media, 7 Jan. 2025
The soldiers under Brigadier General Francis Marion rode this unflappable horse through swampland to defeat the British army, marking a turn in the war effort.
—Jessica Farthing, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2024
The founders of Macondo wade through swampland in One Hundred Years of SolitudeMauro González—Netflix
Solitude traces the rise and fall of a family, a house, a town—and, in its most conspicuous layer of symbolism, a civilization—over the course of, yes, 100 years.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 2 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for swampland
Noun
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Fifteen minutes outside of downtown Boulder, Colorado, sandwiched between a golf course and a marsh, is Congregation Bonai Shalom.—
Cindy Von Quednow,
CNN Money,
4 June 2025
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Before its use as a dump, the land beneath the depot was a marsh along the now-subterranean Givan Creek, which empties into nearby Eastchester Bay.—
Evan Simko-Bednarski,
New York Daily News,
3 June 2025
Noun
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But the effect of duration swamps the measurement: that’s why the bTRIMP graph above shows the 60-minute easy run (LIT) as the workout with the biggest training load.—
Alex Hutchinson,
Outside Online,
5 June 2025
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The Atchafalaya River Basin is the country’s largest river swamp.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
24 May 2025
Noun
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Start the morning kayaking in the Morro Bay Estuary, an 800-acre wetland with salt marshes and mudflats.—
Emese Maczko,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2025
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The turtles' parents are native to the Iowa wetlands.—
Rachel Flynn,
People.com,
6 June 2025
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“Swampland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swampland. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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