Swamp vs Moorland - What's the difference?
swamp | moorland |
A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.
A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures who have adapted specifically to that environment.
To drench or fill with water.
To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
* 2006 ,
(figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
* J. R. Green
* W. Hamilton
Open land that has an acidic peaty soil and is mostly covered with heather or bracken
As nouns the difference between swamp and moorland
is that swamp is a piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes while moorland is open land that has an acidic peaty soil and is mostly covered with heather or bracken.As a verb swamp
is to drench or fill with water.swamp
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia swamp) (en noun)Derived terms
* swamp gum * swampland * swamp wallaby * swampySee also
* bog * marsh * moorVerb
(en verb)- The boat was swamped in the storm.
- I have been swamped with paperwork ever since they started using the new system.
New York Times,
- Mr. Spitzer’s defeat of his Democratic opponent ... ended a primary season in which Hillary Rodham Clinton swamped an antiwar challenger for renomination to the Senate.
- The Whig majority of the house of Lords was swamped by the creation of twelve Tory peers.
- Having swamped himself in following the ignis fatuus of a theory