Swamp vs. Bog

Swampnoun

A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.

Swampnoun

A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures who have adapted specifically to that environment.

Swampverb

To drench or fill with water.

Swampverb

To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.

Swampverb

(figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.

Swampnoun

Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.

Swampverb

To plunge or sink into a swamp.

Swampverb

To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.

Swampverb

Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.

Swampverb

To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.

Swampverb

To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.

Swampnoun

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

Swampnoun

a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables;

Swampverb

drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged;

Swampverb

fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid;

Swamp

A swamp is a forested wetland. Swamps are considered to be transition zones because both land and water play a role in creating this environment.

Bognoun

An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.

Bognoun

(figuratively) Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.

Bognoun

(uncountable) The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.

Bognoun

A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.

Bognoun

An act or instance of defecation.

Bognoun

A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.

Bognoun

(obsolete) nodot=1: a bugbear, monster, or terror.

Bognoun

(obsolete) Puffery, boastfulness.

Bogverb

To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.

Bogverb

(figuratively) to prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.

Bogverb

To sink and stick in bogland.

Bogverb

(figuratively) To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.

Bogverb

To defecate, to void one's bowels.

Bogverb

To cover or spray with excrement.

Bogverb

To make a mess of something.

Bogverb

To provoke, to bug.

Bogverb

To go away.

Bogadjective

(obsolete) Bold; boastful; proud.

Bognoun

A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.

Bognoun

A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.

Bogverb

To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.

Bognoun

wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel

Bogverb

cause to slow down or get stuck;

Bogverb

get stuck while doing something;

Bognoun

an area of wet muddy ground that is too soft to support a heavy body

Bognoun

wetland with acid peaty soil, typically dominated by peat moss.

Bognoun

the toilet.

Bogverb

be or become stuck in mud or wet ground

Bogverb

be prevented from making progress in a task or activity

Bogverb

go away

Bogverb

start a task enthusiastically

Bog

A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat, a deposit of dead plant material—often mosses, and in a majority of cases, sphagnum moss. It is one of the four main types of wetlands.