Swamp vs Carr - What's the difference?
swamp | carr |
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
A bog or marsh; marshy ground, swampland.
* 2007 , Kevin Leahy, The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Lindsey , Tempus 2008, p. 16:
A marsh or fen on which low trees or bushes grow; a marshy woodland.
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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.As a verb swamp
is to drench or fill with water.As a proper noun carr is
a botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist cedric errol carr (1892-1936).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
carr
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Noun
(en noun)- The marsh lands or ‘carrs ’ that covered the low-lying floor of the vale could not be cultivated and the poorly drained flanks of the vale would be best used as pasture.