| swami | (noun) a Hindu religious teacher; used as a title of respect | - |
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| swamp | (noun) low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog | Synonyms: swampland |
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| (noun) a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables | - |
| (verb) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid | Synonyms: deluge, flood, inundate |
| (verb) drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged | Synonyms: drench |
| swamphen | (noun) any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens | Synonyms: gallinule, marsh hen, water hen |
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| swampland | (noun) low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog | Synonyms: swamp |
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| swampy | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, waterlogged |
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| wamble | (verb) move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion | Synonyms: waggle |
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| wampee | (noun) American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds | Synonyms: pickerel weed, pickerelweed, Pontederia cordata |
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| wampum | (noun) small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency | Synonyms: peag, wampumpeag |
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| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar |
| wampumpeag | (noun) small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency | Synonyms: peag, wampum |
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| wigwam | (noun) a Native American lodge frequently having an oval shape and covered with bark or hides | - |
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