We crossed the marshy bottom and passed over a quarter of a mile of dry, hard turf.
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Marshy
//ˈmɑɹʃi//
Synonyms for "marshy" (73 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (22)
Related words (36)
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Translations
41 translations across 19 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- блатист adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
- мочурлив adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
Esperanto
1 entries- marĉa adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
Finnish
1 entries- soinen adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
French
1 entries- marécageux adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
Galician
1 entries- brañento adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
German
4 entries- moorig adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
- moosig adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
- morastig adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
- sumpfig adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
Hungarian
4 entries- ingoványos adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
- lápos adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
- mocsaras adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
- mocsári adj (growing in marshy ground)
Ido
2 entries- marshatra adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
- marshoza adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- tǖphīakphīak adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
Latin
3 entries- paluster adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
- palūdester adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
- palūdōsus adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
Latvian
4 entries- muklains adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
- mukls adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
- purvains adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
- staigns adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
Middle English
1 entries- mersshy adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
Māori
3 entries- kōreporepo adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
- pōwharuwharu adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
- reporepo adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- باتاق adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
Polish
2 entries- błotny adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
- błotny adj (growing in marshy ground)
Portuguese
1 entries- pantanoso adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
Russian
4 entries- боло́тистый adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
- боло́тный adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
- боло́тный adj (growing in marshy ground)
- то́пкий adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
Spanish
2 entries- cenagoso adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
- pantanoso adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
Venetan
1 entries- aquitrinoso adj (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
After two years Pharaoh had a dream. He thought he stood by the river, out of which came up seven kine, very beautiful and fat: and they fed in marshy places.
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So Pharao told what he had dreamed: Methought I stood upon the bank of the river, and seven kine came up out of the river, exceeding beautiful and full of flesh: and they grazed on green places in a marshy pasture.
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The southern shore of the lake is marshy and inaccessible.
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