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marshier

a. (en-comparative of: marshy)

WordNet
marshy
  1. adj. (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" [syn: boggy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, swampy]

  2. [also: marshiest, marshier]

marshier

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Usage examples of "marshier".

The land grew marshier, inlets appeared, and soon we traveled over the bridge to the island.

By late afternoon the terrain became lower and marshier and fields of crops began appearing on either side of a rough, red-clay road again.

You will find some of the ground unpleasantly soggy, but I am familiar with the paths that will take us around or across the marshier places.

This was not much more than a broad track, its ruts and marshier places mended with stones or felled saplings laid side by side.

In about three minutes they returned with a dozen large fleshy tubers like enormous blue potatoes, which they had rooted up from the marshier ground some yards from the jet.