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Meanings of swampland in English

Portuguese
pãntano

Low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog.

pãntano

Space of semiclassical field theories that cannot be consistently embedded in string theory.

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Examples for "swamp"
Examples for "swamp"
1
The claims of the clan entirely swamp the rights of the individual.
Problems of Conduct: An Introductory Survey of Ethics
2
DONALD Trump vowed to 'drain the swamp' that is the nation's capital.
News.com.au
3
A few days ago, when we went out into the swamp together?
Darkness
4
Sadly, bright moonlight will swamp all but the brighter ones this year.
The Guardian
5
She gathered it in an armload and carried it to the swamp.
A Girl of the Limberlost
Usage of swampland in English
1
It was a marsh, swampland, groaning under the weight of constant construction.
Caught
2
This, they hope, will draw water from their flooded shacks and surrounding swampland.
The South African
3
Dead things waiting for the swampland and the river to swallow them up.
Crucifixion river
4
That swampland down there makes ours look like a manicured showpark.
Speaks the Nightbird
5
Residents in the neighbourhood have settled in what authorities deem an uninhabitable, marshy swampland.
The South African
6
There is the lake and swampland of Savoie, for instance.
Ruth Fielding at the War Front; or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldie...
7
It looked like a fair meadow and it turned out to be slippery swampland.
The Young Lions
8
Palamedes racing through a marshy swampland, pursuing the staglike creature.
The Sorceress
9
He looked like a banker who'd foreclosed on what turned out to be swampland.
The burglar who painted like mondrian
10
This swampland... it is difficult even for a boat.
White Hunter, Black Heart
11
To the south are the Basto and the Mullica, which flow through wild untrammeled swampland.
The new yorker
12
He had been there in winter hunting bears when all the swampland was locked by ice.
The Last Trail
13
What balanced there now, as if walking the treacherous surface of the swampland, was no animal.
Voodoo Planet
14
To me: Yonder's a trail leading to swampland.
Break No Bones
15
The Queen sneaked through the swampland and out into the forest toward the Seven Jeweled Hills.
Fairest of All
16
Did he also have some swampland to buy?
Embrace the darkness
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Translations for swampland
Swampland through the time