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Meanings of swampy in English

(Of soil) soft and watery.

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      1
      Most of the country was swampy, the mules sinking chest-deep in mud.
      Across Unknown South America
      2
      The meadow mice are bluish grey and are found in swampy places.
      The Lake of the Sky / Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of Californ...
      3
      We came upon swampy ground; just beyond it a road crossed ours.
      Who Goes There? / The Story of a Spy in the Civil War
      4
      Our alligator inhabits the rivers and swampy districts of the southern states.
      Four Months in a Sneak-Box / A Boat Voyage of 2600 Miles Down th...
      5
      It's this swampy patch that runs right through the center of town.
      11/22/63
      6
      Then we spent the day threading the mazes of that swampy forest.
      Andivius Hedulio: Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of ...
      7
      It was judged that the whole country was low-lying and probably swampy.
      Gudrid the Fair / A Tale of the Discovery of America
      8
      As the ground was soft and swampy, the labour was very easy.
      Masterman Ready
      9
      They are eyeing foothills a half-hour walk from the swampy beach areas.
      Reuters
      10
      The country was exceedingly swampy and we had to make innumerable detours.
      Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922
      11
      Beyond this point, in swampy ground, flourished a forest of giant bamboo.
      As It Was in the Beginning
      12
      Some days it felt like the crack had captured a swampy humidity.
      Climbing Magazine
      13
      Between the two rivers ran a narrow neck of swampy, bush-grown land.
      Pathfinders of the West / Being the Thrilling Story of the Adven...
      14
      Sundari trees constitute 70 percent of trees grown in the swampy forest.
      Reuters
      15
      HESE birds frequent swampy woods, marshes, morasses, and the borders of rivers.
      Chatterbox Stories of Natural History
      16
      The ground was either swampy, or covered with tangled undergrowth, or both.
      A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee
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