Definition of "swamp" []

• A seasonally flooded bottomland with more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog. (noun)
• A lowland region saturated with water. (noun)
• A situation or place fraught with difficulties and imponderables: a financial swamp. (noun)
• To drench in or cover with or as if with water. (verb-transitive)
• To inundate or burden; overwhelm: She was swamped with work. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "It was legendary producer Jerry Wexler who coined the phrase "swamp" to describe the music coming out of studios in Macon, Ga., and Muscle Shoals, Ala."
• "Boreal forrest on flat land or a Florida swamp is a bad place to be if you don't know how to find your way around in the woods."
• "But volunteer Ed Mendel believes they were not able to go where he can on what he calls swamp thing, a vehicle designed for hunting pigs and deer in the Everglades and modified for rescue work."