We were bogged down in a morass of paperwork.
Source: tatoeba (248873)
Morass
//məˈɹæs//
Synonyms for "morass" (111 found)
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35 translations across 18 languages.
Belarusian
1 entries- бало́та noun (anything that entraps or makes progress difficult)
Bulgarian
2 entries- блато noun (tract of soft, wet ground)
- мочур noun (tract of soft, wet ground)
Dutch
1 entries- moeras noun (tract of soft, wet ground)
Finnish
3 entries- hetteikkö noun (tract of soft, wet ground)
- suo noun (tract of soft, wet ground)
- suo noun (anything that entraps or makes progress difficult)
French
3 entries- bourbier noun (anything that entraps or makes progress difficult)
- marais noun (tract of soft, wet ground)
- marécage noun (tract of soft, wet ground)
Irish
2 entries- bar noun (tract of soft, wet ground)
- seascann noun (tract of soft, wet ground)
Italian
2 entries- pantano noun (tract of soft, wet ground)
- pantano noun (anything that entraps or makes progress difficult)
Latin
1 entries- palūs noun (tract of soft, wet ground)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- باتاق noun (tract of soft, wet ground)
- خلاش noun (tract of soft, wet ground)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Moarauss noun (tract of soft, wet ground)
Portuguese
2 entries- banhado noun (tract of soft, wet ground)
- pântano noun (tract of soft, wet ground)
Romanian
1 entries- mlaștină noun (tract of soft, wet ground)
Russian
3 entries- боло́то noun (tract of soft, wet ground)
- тряси́на noun (tract of soft, wet ground)
- тряси́на noun (anything that entraps or makes progress difficult)
Sanskrit
1 entries- पङ्क noun (tract of soft, wet ground)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- boglach noun (tract of soft, wet ground)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- blato noun (tract of soft, wet ground)
Spanish
4 entries- almarjal noun (tract of soft, wet ground)
- armajal noun (tract of soft, wet ground)
- marisma noun (tract of soft, wet ground)
- marjal noun (tract of soft, wet ground)
Swedish
3 entries- moras noun (tract of soft, wet ground)
- moras noun (anything that entraps or makes progress difficult)
- moras noun (anything that entraps or makes progress difficult)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
His father drank himself into a morass of self-pity.
Source: tatoeba (12102073)
The morass of regulations is delaying the project.
Source: tatoeba (12153033)
Seven miles to the north of Venice, the banks of sand, which near the city rise little above low-water mark, attain by degrees a higher level, and knit themselves at last into fields of salt morass, raised here and there into shapeless mounds, and intercepted by narrow creeks of sea.
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