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Vanquish vs Swamp - What's the difference?

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Vanquish is a related term of swamp.


As verbs the difference between vanquish and swamp

is that vanquish is to defeat, to overcome 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.

vanquish

English

Verb

(es)
  • To defeat, to overcome.
  • * Clarendon
    • They vanquished the rebels in all encounters.
  • * Atterbury
    • This bold assertion has been fully vanquished in a late reply to the Bishop of Meaux's treatise.

    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