Swamp vs. Moor

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.

Moornoun

an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath

Moornoun

a game preserve consisting of moorland

Moorverb

To cast anchor or become fastened.

Moorverb

To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like

Moorverb

(transitive) To secure or fix firmly.

Moornoun

One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.

Moornoun

Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion.

Moornoun

An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.

Moornoun

A game preserve consisting of moorland.

Moorverb

To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf.

Moorverb

Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly.

Moorverb

To cast anchor; to become fast.

Moornoun

one of the Muslim people of north Africa; of mixed Arab and Berber descent; converted to Islam in the 8th century; conqueror of Spain in the 8th century

Moornoun

open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss

Moorverb

secure in or as if in a berth or dock;

Moorverb

come into or dock at a wharf;

Moorverb

secure with cables or ropes;