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# morass

«morass» in Mova's school dictionary: **soft, wet ground that sinks under your feet, a bog** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (morasses)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A morass is soft, wet ground that sinks under your feet, a bog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/morass/#m1)

2) A morass can also mean a confused mess one is stuck in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/morass/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

characters who sink into a swamp or who are stuck in a tangle of trouble

### examples

- The horse sank into the morass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/morass/#x1)
- They waded through a morass of mud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/morass/#x2)
- He was stuck in a morass of debts and worry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/morass/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; a morass is a place or a mess, not a number

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «morass» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/morass/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.