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swampsnounpl. of swamp spongy land saturated or partially covered with waterbe careful in the swamp, because alligators sometimes lurk there bogs, fens, marshes, marshlands, mires, moors, morasses, muskegs, sloughs(also slews or slues), swamplands, washes, wetlands swalesquagmiresgucks(or gooks), muck, muds, oozes, slimes, slop, sludges, slush a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escapewith her credit cards maxed out, and the making of minimum payments a challenge, debt seemed to be an ever-deepening swamp binds, boxes, catch-22's(or catch-22s), corners, dilemmas, fixes, holes, impasses, jackpots(chiefly West), jams, mires, pickles, predicaments, quagmires, rabbit holes, rattraps, spots, sticky wickets difficulties, nodeshot waters, soupspinches, plights, quandaries, scrapes, troublesdeadlocks, halts, logjams, stalemates, standstillsclutches, crises, crossroads, emergencies, exigencies, junctures, straits kettles of fish to cover with a floodthe boat was swamped by the huge wave has been swamped with paperwork since she returned from vacation deluges, drowns, engulfs, floods, gulfs, inundates, overflows, overwhelms, submerges, submerses avalanches, smothersovercomes, overrunsflows, flushes, gushes, pours, sluices, spouts, spurts, streamsdouses(also dowses), drenches, soaks, wets drains dehydrates, dries, parches to subject to incapacitating emotional or mental stressparents feeling swamped by work and family obligations crushes, devastates, floors, grinds (down), oppresses, overcomes, overmasters, overpowers, overwhelms, prostrates, snows under, whelms deluges, drowns, sinksconfutes, defeats, refutesbreaks, demoralizes, distresses, disturbs, rocks, shatters, staggers, throws, unmans, unnerves, upsets |