Corner
Corner noun - A difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape.
Usage example: the writers have gotten themselves into a corner on that TV show
Swamp and corner are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Swamp" instead a noun "Corner".
Nearby Words: cornered, cornering
Swamp
Swamp noun - A difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape.
Usage example: with her credit cards maxed out, and the making of minimum payments a challenge, debt seemed to be an ever-deepening swamp
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Synonyms for Swamp
How words are described
| high | high corner | high swamp |
| particular | particular corner | particular swamp |
| standard | standard corner | standard swamp |
| big | big corner | big swamp |
| Other adjectives: little, dark, hot, random, western. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Another swamp lies in the corner of the desert, separated from it by a plateau from two sides and bordering with the sea from two other.
Source: Patchwork Map - The Great Hollow and Ash Lake are only accessible behind an illusory wall (which is behind a treasure chest, which is behind another illusory wall) in a remote corner of the poisonous Blighttown swamp, in an already fairly well-hidden room containing a rare item.
Source: Guide Dang It / Dark Souls -
As well as The Jackal's mumbled rants being an obvious homage to Kurtz, the map for the lower-right corner of the second map contains, in clockwise order, the locations "Marina," "Landing Zone," "Swamp" and "Heart of Darkness," making it a map of the movie.
Source: Video Game / Far Cry 2
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