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MORASS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
Synonyms:
mire; morass; quag; quagmire; slack
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("morass" is a kind of...):
bog; peat bog (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)
Context examples:
Advancing in single file along the bank of the stream, we soon found that it narrowed down to a mere brook, and finally that it lost itself in a great green morass of sponge-like mosses, into which we sank up to our knees.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
With high hopes we struck across the peaty, russet moor, intersected with a thousand sheep paths, until we came to the broad, light-green belt which marked the morass between us and Holdernesse.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The place was horribly haunted by clouds of mosquitoes and every form of flying pest, so we were glad to find solid ground again and to make a circuit among the trees, which enabled us to outflank this pestilent morass, which droned like an organ in the distance, so loud was it with insect life.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In a morass, Watson?
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
