MORASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does morass mean? 

• MORASS (noun)
  The noun MORASS has 1 sense:

1. a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot

  Familiarity information: MORASS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MORASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

mire; morass; quag; quagmire; slack

Hypernyms ("morass" is a kind of...):

bog; peat bog (wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel)

 Context examples 

Following the tracks, we had left the morass and passed through a screen of brushwood and trees.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In some parts it widens into a morass.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The evolutionary tree of butterflies is a complete morass of interconnectedness, he said.

(Study reveals surprising amount of gene flow among butterfly species, National Science Foundation)

But where Silver stood with his lieutenant, all was still in shadow, and they waded knee-deep in a low white vapour that had crawled during the night out of the morass.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I am sure you cannot long be content to pass your leisure in solitude, and to devote your working hours to a monotonous labour wholly void of stimulus: any more than I can be content, he added, with emphasis, to live here buried in morass, pent in with mountains—my nature, that God gave me, contravened; my faculties, heaven-bestowed, paralysed—made useless.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They were at the morass, and again on the path, and again near where poor Heidegger met his death.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why, the river rises and falls the best part of forty feet, and half the country is a morass that you can't pass over.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“There is another morass down yonder, and a narrow neck between. Halloa! halloa! halloa! what have we here?”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One funnel-shaped depression in the morass, of a livid green in color from some lichen which festered in it, will always remain as a nightmare memory in my mind.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We will leave this question undecided and hark back to our morass again, for we have left a good deal unexplored.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)