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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

Loanword
morassother
=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.

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