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Created page with "==English== ===Etymology=== Borrowed from Middle Dutch ''moeras'' (“marsh, swamp”), altered with influence from Middle Dutch ''moer'' (“moor”). Ultimately from Old French ''mareis'', from Proto-West Germanic ''*marisk''. Doublet of ''marish'' and ''marsh''. Compare ''moor'' and ''quagmire''. ===Pronunciation=== * IPA (General American): /məˈɹæs/, /moˈɹæs/ * Rhymes: -æs ===Video Walkthrough=== {{#ev:youtube|nV7pwSJa6zA|720|center|Morass — Video Walkt..." |
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* IPA (General American): /məˈɹæs/, /moˈɹæs/ | * IPA (General American): /məˈɹæs/, /moˈɹæs/ | ||
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#*: “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.” | ||
===Video Walkthrough=== | |||
{{#ev:youtube|nV7pwSJa6zA|720|center|Morass — Video Walkthrough}} | |||
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[[Category:Landforms]] | [[Category:Landforms]] | ||
[[Category:Wetlands]] | [[Category:Wetlands]] | ||
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* [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/morass](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/morass) | |||
Revision as of 06:19, 3 March 2026
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Dutch moeras (“marsh, swamp”), altered with influence from Middle Dutch moer (“moor”). Ultimately from Old French mareis, from Proto-West Germanic *marisk. Doublet of marish and marsh. Compare moor and quagmire.
Pronunciation
- IPA (General American): /məˈɹæs/, /moˈɹæs/
- Rhymes: -æs
Noun
- 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.”
- Template:Anchor(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.”