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# swampy

adjective (swampy, swampier, swampiest)

«swampy» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Swampy land is wet, soft and muddy, like a swamp, with water lying on it and plants growing in the water. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swampy/#m1)

### In the lessons

Geography and science: swamps and marshes are wetlands; they are homes for frogs, birds, alligators (USA) and many insects, and they store water and stop floods. Stories: swampy places are often spooky, misty or home to monsters like Shrek. Everyday: a swampy football pitch after rain.

### Examples

- The path became swampy after the rain. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swampy/#x1)
- Alligators live in swampy parts of Florida. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swampy/#x2)
- The football pitch was swampy and we got covered in mud. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swampy/#x3)
- Mosquitoes breed in swampy ground. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swampy/#x4)
- The ogre lived in a swampy forest. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swampy/#x5)
- Swampy land is good for frogs and herons. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swampy/#x6)
- In the swampy margin of a broad stream in the garden lived the toad, with her son. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swampy/#x7)

### Note

Comparative: swampier, swampiest. Related: swamp (noun; also verb «to swamp» = to flood or overwhelm: I'm swamped with homework). Similar: marshy, boggy (UK and Ireland: bog).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «swampy» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swampy/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«swampy» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/swampy.html) on Mova free.