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How to pronounce marshy in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms boggy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged
Derivation marsh


a marshy coastline.

Examples of marshy

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Weedy fields and marshy areas will fill with these little brown birds overnight.
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The Rose needs funds to stabilise the marshy soil and preserve the timber parts.
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We hiked along a marshy trail as the first rays of the sun glinted on Tioga Lake.
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It lives in marshy wetlands, and on beaches, and has become common in city parks.
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Their bedtime stories were Ur-texte in the marshy land of Indo-European folklore.
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The land was available for purchase because it was marshy and malaria-infested.
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Moreover, marshy banks and perennial flooding impede navigation in some areas.
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To prove his point, he walks over to a marshy landscape of tires, rafters and mud.
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The Marish is the name of fertile but marshy farmlands along the Brandywine River.
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More examples
  • Boggy: (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous"
  • In geography, a marsh, or morass, is a type of wetland that is subject to frequent or continuous flood. Typically the water is shallow and features grasses, rushes, reeds, typhas, sedges, and other herbaceous plants.
  • (The Marshes) The Marshes are a punk band that includes Colin Sears (drums), Emil Busi (bass, vocals) and Steven Wardlaw (guitar). Colin Sears best known for playing with Dag Nasty in the mid-1980s to early 1990s formed The Marshes with longtime friend Emil Busi in 1994. ...
  • Of, or resembling a marsh; boggy; Growing in marshy ground
  • (MARSHES) wetlands with soils that are less organic than other wetlands, usually characterised by emergent vegetation such as cattails. Marshes usually have an equal area of open water and vegetation.
  • (Marshes) Low, flat, waterlogged areas; including swamps.