Marshes synonyms

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fen
An area of low, flat, marshy land; swamp; bog
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bogs
The definition of a bog is small marsh with wet ground made up of decaying plants, usually moss.
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swamplands
(Countable, uncountable) Low-lying land that is regularly flooded; especially such land that is drier than a bog or a marsh.
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swamps
A piece of wet, spongy land that is permanently or periodically covered with water, characterized by growths of shrubs and trees; marsh; bog
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sloughs
Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
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quagmires
Land with a soft muddy surface.
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morasses
A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
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mires
Deep mud; wet, soggy earth; slush
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moors
An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
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miasmata
The definition of miasma is steam rising from rotting vegetable or animal matter.
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glades
An open space in the ice on a river or lake
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drys (related)
(Rare) Dry land
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  • The marshes dried up.

  • The marshes have been drained, and a pumping station erected near Castel Fusano.

  • The plain on the right of the marshes was prepared with pits and spikes.

  • In 1849 Garibaldi's wife Anita, who had accompanied him on his retreat from Rome, succumbed to fatigue in the marshes near Ravenna.

  • Drainage finding no outlet through the thick clay, the soil of the forest region is often hidden beneath extensive marshes, and the forests themselves are often mere thickets choking marshy ground; large tracts of sand appear in the W., and the admixture of boulders with the clay in the N.W.

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