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marshy
/ ˈmɑːʃɪ /
adjective
- of, involving, or like a marsh
Derived Forms
- ˈmarshiness, noun
Other Words From
- marshi·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
The Pripyat River basin was marshy until industrialization intruded.
Apaches used what was once a marshy ciénaga as a water hole for centuries.
A damp mist rose from the river and the marshy ground about, and spread itself over the dreary fields.
The juncture was in a big, marshy, untillable flat, from which hills rose abruptly.
Eastwards it fell away into a marshy tract filling the angle of the two rivers and intersected by watercourses.
The land on the western side of the gulf is high and rocky; but the opposite shore is very low, and apparently marshy.
As in the low marshy ground at the mouths of the Liri and Volturno, malaria is very prevalent.
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