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fever-swamp

fever-swamp noun: disease-ridden swamp.

Noun

fever-swamp (plural fever-swamps)

  1. Disease-ridden swamp.
    • Think of it as the Martian equivalent of the Fountain of Youth, which that grizzled and gullible old soldier-of-fortune, Ponce de Leon, once searched for in the fever-swamps of Florida, and you will not be far off the mark.1974, Lin Carter, The valley where time stood still, page 31
    • It was so hot in this fever-swamp that his water requirements would be prodigious.2006, Hugh Cook, The Worshippers and the Way, →ISBN, page 260
  2. Group of political extremists.
    • The community has been the focus of the fever-swamp for years, with pundits insisting it's a terrorist training camp.2017 February 21, Heather Yakin, “Our Muslim neighbors are being targeted with violent threats”, in Times Herald-Record
  3. Extreme political positions.
    • Among those caught up in the fever-swamp was Karl Rove, the architect of George W. Bush's two White House wins.2014, John Avlon, Wingnuts: Extremism in the Age of Obama, →ISBN, page 252

Forms of fever-swamp

pluralfever-swamps

Questions about fever-swamp

What does fever-swamp mean?
Fever-swamp means disease-ridden swamp.
What part of speech is fever-swamp?
Fever-swamp is a noun.
What is the plural of fever-swamp?
The plural of fever-swamp is fever-swamps.

Words near fever-swamp in the dictionary

  1. fever tree
  2. fever trees
  3. fever-dreamlike
  4. fever-pitched
  5. fever-ridden
  6. fever-swamp
  7. fever-swamps
  8. feverbush
  9. fevered
  10. feveret
  11. fevereth

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