morass
UK/mә'ræs/US
GREC2
Definitions
n.
A stretch of soft, boggy ground; a complicated or confused situation that is hard to escape
沼泽；困境；乱局
Root Breakdown
Loanwordmorassother
=morass
Common Collocations
- 1.bureaucratic morass官僚制度的泥潭
- 2.tangled morass复杂的困局
- 3.emerge from morass逃出困境
Example Sentences
- 1.
The city was caught in a bureaucratic [morass].
- 2.
We must help them escape the [morass] of poverty.