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Swamp vs Spate - What's the difference?

swamp | spate |

As nouns the difference between swamp and spate

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 spate is .

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)
  • 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

    spate

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A river flood; an overflow or inundation.
  • * 17thC , '', from a Latin original, published in ''Collected works of Sir Thomas Browne (1836),
    • Only let your language match your subject, then it will be shapely and free; but take care all the time not to overwhelm your work in a spate of words to attain the fluency of Isaeus; and that it slip not out too freely, avoid the danger of Strada.
  • * c.1856-1885 , ,
    • The last tall son of Lot and Bellicent,
    And tallest, Gareth, in a showerful spring
    Stared at the spate . A slender-shafted Pine
    Lost footing, fell, and so was whirled away.
  • * 1900 , ,
    • At Odendaal, where he had hoped to cross, the river was in spate , the British flag waved from a post upon the further side, and a strong force of expectant Guardsmen eagerly awaited him there.
  • * 1902 , ,
    • The glacial drip was already in evidence, and every creek in roaring spate .
  • * 1910 , ,
    • At the edge of the burn, where the path turns downward, there is a patch of shingle washed up by some spate .
  • A sudden rush or increase.
  • * 1887 , '', in ''The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables ,
    • He couldnae weel tell how - maybe it was the cauld to his feet - but it cam' in upon him wi' a spate that there was some connection between thir twa, an' that either or baith o' them were bogles.
  • * 1964 , United States Supreme Court, ,
    • The spate of similar cases filed and decided by lower courts since our decision in Baker [v. Carr] amply shows that the problem of state legislative malapportionment is one that is perceived to exist in a large number of the States.
  • * 2009 April, ,
    • A recent spate of controversies, including Chinese mineral giant Chinalco’s Rio Tinto bid and revelations of hushed meetings between the Chinese propaganda chief and Australian media bosses, have once again brought the issue of our deepening relationship with China to the fore.
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