morass

[ muh-ras ]

/ məˈræs /

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noun

a tract of low, soft, wet ground.

a marsh or bog.

marshy ground.

any confusing or troublesome situation, especially one from which it is difficult to free oneself; entanglement.

Nearby words

morality play, moralize, morally, morandi, morar, morass, moratorium, moratory, moratuwa, morava, moravia

Origin of morass

1645–55; < Dutch moeras, alteration (by association with moer marsh; cf. moor¹) of Middle Dutch maras < Old French mareis < Germanic. See marsh

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These groups tend to push for a “one-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian morass.
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She took up the miserable chore of attending dodgy networking events, but out of that morass came the character of Tallah.
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The facts on the ground are anything but auspicious for America injecting itself into an intra-Arab morass.
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The facts on the ground are anything but auspicious for America injecting itself into an intra-Arab morass, writes Lloyd Green.
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Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is not about digging into the morass of deep dark secrets of the soul.
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It was surrounded by a morass, and approachable only by two narrow causeways.
The Huguenots in France|Samuel Smiles.
The knight, annoyed by this love and the shame thereof, threw away the stone into a morass.
Women of the Teutonic Nations|Hermann Schoenfeld
Yet out of this morass of misbegotten virtues I plucked my first blossom of genuine affection.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6)|Havelock Ellis
One of them, when he had gone about a quarter of a mile, was heard to shout that he was fast in the morass.
At the Point of the Bayonet|G. A. Henty
They were three days floundering through this dismal slough, the horses being most of the time up to their girths in the morass.
Hernando Cortez|John S. C. Abbott

British Dictionary definitions for morass

morass

/ (məˈræs) /

noun

a tract of swampy low-lying land

a disordered or muddled situation or circumstance, esp one that impedes progress

Word Origin for morass

C17: from Dutch moeras, ultimately from Old French marais marsh

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