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Translate swamp from English to French

Summary

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swamp:
- Wiktionary:
  swamp → marécage, marais
  swamp → submerger, abreuver, combler
  swamp → marais
- Synonyms for "swamp":
  swampland; wetland
  situation
  drench; flood
  deluge; flood; inundate; fill; fill up; make full; flood in

English

Detailed Translations for swamp from English to French

swamp:

Translation Matrix for swamp:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	swampland
Verb	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	deluge; drench; flood; inundate
Other	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	bog

Synonyms for "swamp":

swampland; wetland
situation
drench; flood
deluge; flood; inundate; fill; fill up; make full; flood in

Related Definitions for "swamp":

low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog¹
a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables¹
- he was trapped in a medical swamp¹
fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid¹
drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged¹

Wiktionary Translations for swamp:

swamp

noun

type of wetland
- swamp → marécage; marais

verb

overwhelm
- swamp → submerger

swamp

verb

faire boire (un animal, particulièrement un cheval).
- abreuver → drench; flood; overwhelm; swamp; dampen; irrigate; water
Traductions à trier suivant le sens
- combler → fill; fill up; fulfill; overwhelm; swamp; flood

noun

Étendue humide (1)
- marais → swamp; bog; marsh; moor; fen; heath; wetland; marshland; morass; quag; quagmire
étendue de terre saturée d'eau pendant la plus grande partie de l'année, et dont la surface du sol n'est généralement recouverte que d'une faible profondeur d'eau.
- marécage → marsh; marshland; swamp; bog; wetland; fen; morass; quag; quagmire

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• swamp	→ marais	↔ moeras — een drassig gebied waarin men gemakkelijk verzinkt
• swamp	→ marais	↔ Flachmoor — Moor, das vom Grundwasserstand abhängig ist und sich bei der Verlandung nährstoffreicher Seen, Teiche und Flussläufe bildet
• swamp	→ marais	↔ Sumpf — flache, stehende Wasserfläche mit Vegetation

Related Translations for swamp

form a swamp

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