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Tract of swampy land
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morass
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Morass '' (German: Morast '') is a 1922 German silent film directed by Wolfgang Neff and starring Maria Zelenka . The film's sets were designed by the art director Mathieu Oostermann .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"wet, swampy tract," 1650s, from Dutch moeras "marsh, fen," from Middle Dutch marasch , from Old French marais "marsh," from Frankish, possibly from West Germanic *marisk , from Proto-Germanic *mariskaz "like a lake," from *mari "sea" (see mere (n.)). The ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen. 2 Anything that entraps or makes progress difficult.
Usage examples of morass.
The city of Mursa, or Essek, celebrated in modern times for a bridge of boats, five miles in length, over the River Drave, and the adjacent morasses, has been always considered as a place of importance in the wars of Hungary.
At that point, as Miles had hoped and foreseen, proceedings broke down in a morass of untested interplanetary legal hypotheses that threatened to engulf the Barrayaran Embassy and the Betan State Department on ever-ascending levels of personnel.
The trees were scattered and clumped and rimmed with dark morass and marsh grass and pools of dim water, but their limbs bent out so alarmingly that there seemed to be an almost unbroken canopy of leaves overhead.
Fertile in stratagem, he struck unperceived, and retiring to those hidden retreats selected by himself, in the morasses of Pedee and Black rivers, he placed his corps, not only out of the reach of his foe, but often out of the discovery of his friends.
At the moment, it gilded everything with white, but it would soon turn the roads into an icy morass unnavigable by any sane man.
Mongols would not have tarried on Long Lake, nor camped amid the morasses of the muskeg ponds.
Immediately south of Cotopaxi, the Cordillera consists of paramos sown with lakes and morasses, and is rarely covered with snow.
He disengaged my hand and began to redial a number that would result in a veritable morass of complications for me.
Looking thus at life, shorn of its superrational sanctions, Saxon floundered into the morass of pessimism.
Crops had remained unplanted and unharvested in the morass that had once been fair and fertile townlands in the valley.
Now, your Majesty will see through your glass that a mile of bogland intervenes between these villages, and that the nearest one, Chedzoy, as I think they call it, might be approached without ourselves entering the morass.
All that anyone can remember is that some Republican had to extricate himself from a morass of allegations portraying him as some sort of legal malefactor.
The truth quickly vanished in a morass of claims and counterclaims, until even the Church grew sick of it.
The near side of the construct formed a tangled, impenetrable fence, twisted exuberantly into arcs and cusps, with shards of galaxy images glittering through the morass of spacetime defects.
The near side of the artifact formed a tangled, impenetrable fence, twisted exuberantly into arcs and cusps, with shards of galaxy images glittering through the morass of spacetime defects.