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Sea vs Swamp - What's the difference?

sea | swamp |

As verbs the difference between sea and swamp

is that sea is to saw while swamp is to drench or fill with water.

As a noun 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.

sea

English

Noun

  • A large body of salty water. (Major seas are known as oceans.)
  • (label) A large number or quantity; a vast amount.
    • A sea of faces stared back at the singer.
    With no power for the electric lights, the house was a sea of darkness.
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    • , passage=In the last two decades, North Korea has on various occasions conducted highly provocative missile and nuclear tests and promised to turn Seoul into a sea of fire. }}
  • A heavy wave.
  • (label) A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.

    • Synonyms

    * the ogin (UK'', ''nautical and navy )

    Derived terms

    {{der3, deep sea , freedom of the seas , high seas , open sea , seabased , sea breeze , seachange, sea change , sea cow , sea dragon , seafood , seagull , seahorse , sea cucumber , sea grape , sea hare , sea hog , sea level , sea liver , sea louse , sea monster , sea otter , seaplane , sea pork , sea room , sea sawdust , seaside , sea slug , sea squirt , seastar , sea urchin , sea wolf}}

    See also

    * ocean * The Seven Seas

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    swamp

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (wikipedia swamp) (en noun)
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * swamp gum * swampland * swamp wallaby * swampy

    See also

    * bog * marsh * moor

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To drench or fill with water.
    • The boat was swamped in the storm.
  • To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
    • I have been swamped with paperwork ever since they started using the new system.
  • * 2006 , 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.
  • (figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
  • * J. R. Green
    • The Whig majority of the house of Lords was swamped by the creation of twelve Tory peers.
  • * W. Hamilton
    • Having swamped himself in following the ignis fatuus of a theory