Swamp

1. n. Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.
2. v. t. To plunge or sink into a swamp.
3. v. t. To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.
4. v. t. Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
5. v. i. To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.