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Morass definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MORASS', n. A marsh; a fen; a tract of low moist ground.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot [syn: mire, quagmire, quag, morass, slack]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Dutch moeras, modification of Old French maresc, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English mersc marsh — more at marsh Date: 1655 1. marsh, swamp 2. a. a situation that traps, confuses, or impedes <a legal morass> b. an overwhelming or confusing mass or mixture <a morass of traffic jams — Mary Roach> • morassy adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 an entanglement; a disordered situation, esp. one impeding progress. 2 literary a bog or marsh. Etymology: Du. moeras (assim. to moer MOOR(1)) f. MDu. marasch f. OF marais marsh f. med.L mariscus

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Morass Mo*rass", n. [OE. marras, mareis (perh. through D. moeras), fr. F. marais, prob. from L. mare sea, in LL., any body of water; but perh. influenced by some German word. See Mere a lake, and cf. Marsh.] A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen. Morass ore. (Min.) See Bog ore, under Bog.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(morasses) If you describe an unpleasant or confused situation as a morass, you mean that it seems impossible to escape from or resolve, because it has become so serious or so complicated. I tried to drag myself out of the morass of despair. ...the economic morass. = quagmire N-COUNT: usu sing, with supp, oft N of n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Marsh, fen, bog, quagmire, swamp, slough.

Moby Thesaurus

anarchy, baygall, bind, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, chaos, clutch, complication, confusion, crunch, dunghill, embarrassing position, embarrassment, entanglement, everglade, fabulous formless darkness, fen, fenland, fine how-do-you-do, foul-up, glade, hassle, hell to pay, hobble, hog wallow, holm, hot water, how-do-you-do, imbroglio, jam, jungle, knot, labyrinth, license, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, mere, mesh, mess, mire, misrule, mix, mix-up, moor, moorland, moss, mud, mud flat, muddle, parlous straits, pass, peat bog, pickle, pinch, plight, predicament, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, quag, quagmire, quicksand, salt marsh, scrape, screw-up, skein, slob land, slough, snafu, snarl, sough, spot, squeeze, stew, sticky wicket, strait, straits, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, taiga, tangle, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, tricky spot, unholy mess, view, wallow, wash, web