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# A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen. | # A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen. | ||
#*: “Seven miles to the north of Venice, the banks of sand, which near the city rise little above low-water mark, attain by degrees a higher level, and knit themselves at last into fields of salt '''morass''', raised here and there into shapeless mounds, and intercepted by narrow creeks of sea.” | #*: “Seven miles to the north of Venice, the banks of sand, which near the city rise little above low-water mark, attain by degrees a higher level, and knit themselves at last into fields of salt '''morass''', raised here and there into shapeless mounds, and intercepted by narrow creeks of sea.” | ||
# | # ''(figurative)'' Anything that entraps or makes progress difficult. | ||
#*: “I wrote to Sacramento about that historical marker, and they've been kicking it around their bureaucratic '''morass''' for months.” | #*: “I wrote to Sacramento about that historical marker, and they've been kicking it around their bureaucratic '''morass''' for months.” | ||