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adj. - (of soil) soft and watery.

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  • They were sometimes held in swampy areas thick with snakes and mosquitoes.
  • They were sometimes held in swampy areas teeming with snakes and malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
  • The small Laurel Magnolia, or Sweet Bay, is found as far north as New York, in swampy grounds.
  • Their car swerved off the road and onto the median which was soggy to the point of swampy from a recent rainstorm.
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