Betekenis van:
swamp

swamp
Zelfstandig naamwoord
    • a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables
    "he was trapped in a medical swamp"

    Hyperoniemen

    swamp
    Zelfstandig naamwoord
    • donk
    • low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog

    Synoniemen

    Hyperoniemen

    Hyponiemen

    to swamp
    Werkwoord
      • drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
      "The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor"

      Synoniemen

      Hyperoniemen

      to swamp
      Werkwoord
      • onderlopen, onderstromen
      • fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid

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      Voorbeeldzinnen

      1. The plague came from the swamp.
      2. Founding your life on illusions is like building a house on a swamp.
      3. Swamp deer
      4. swamp meadowgrass
      5. Western swamp turtle
      6. Burmese swamp turtle
      7. Fennoscandian deciduous swamp woods
      8. 9080 * Fennoscandian deciduous swamp woods
      9. Swamp deer Cervus elaphus bactrianus (II)
      10. Marsh deer Cervus duvaucelii (I) Swamp deer
      11. Melanochelys tricarinata (I) Three-keeled land tortoise Morenia ocellata (I) Burmese swamp turtle
      12. Pseudemydura umbrina (I) Western swamp turtle Cheloniidae Sea turtles Cheloniidae spp. (I) Sea turtles Chelydridae
      13. Melanochelys tricarinata (I) Three-keeled land tortoise Morenia ocellata (I) Burmese swamp turtle Notochelys platynota (II) Malayan flat-shelled turtle
      14. Chelodina mccordi (II) Roti snake-necked turtle Pseudemydura umbrina (I) Western swamp turtle Cheloniidae Sea turtles Cheloniidae spp. (I) Sea turtles Chelydridae
      15. See, for example, p. 9 of the above-mentioned report by Goldman Sachs of 22.7.2002: ‘If these bonds moved from the investment grade segment of the fixed income market, to “junk”, i.e. high yield, they would swamp the current European high yield market … [and] we believe it would be difficult for the existing European investor base alone to absorb all France Telecom bonds ’.