Swamp
Swamp verb - To subject to incapacitating emotional or mental stress.
Usage example: parents feeling swamped by work and family obligations
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Synonyms for Swamp
Throw
Throw verb - To send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm.
How words are described
| good | good swamp | good throw |
| high | high swamp | high throw |
| complete | complete swamp | complete throw |
| standard | standard swamp | standard throw |
| Other adjectives: big, odd, giant. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Grimes, who was plotting to throw both Molly and the kidnapped child into the swamp, stumbles and falls into the swamp himself.
Source: Film / Sparrows - When I'm through, I'm going to throw your rotting carcass into the swamp and let the beasts feed on your entrails!
Source: Sharing a Body -
In the novelisation of the Doctor Who serial "The Daleks' Master Plan", the Doctor and his companions, on a planet inhabited by invisible monsters, throw one into a swamp to render it visible.
Source: See the Invisible
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