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Definition of morass in English: morassnoun məˈrasməˈræs 1An area of muddy or boggy ground. 沼泽 in midwinter the track beneath this bridge became a muddy morass Example sentencesExamples - We tend to take such well maintained paths for granted but on the mountain the contrast between the good path and the muddy morass is all too obvious.
- Not everyone likes these cobbled trails but not that long ago this path was thirty feet wide, a swathe of mud and peat, ever-widening as more and more walkers tried to avoid the morass in the middle.
- So each morning and evening, 700 villagers strike out across dirt roads turned into a morass of mud and dung to deliver medicines to people with AIDS and tuberculosis.
- The main landscape feature is endless peatbog, surrounded by marsh, leading into morasses, sloughs and quagmires.
- On the appointed day the Queen inspected a muddy, smelly morass.
- ‘I noticed some people removing some peat soil from a small morass,’ he writes.
- This heavy foot traffic placed an intolerable burden on the old, original summit path and what had been a pleasant trail up the hillside had turned into a linear morass of mud and glaur.
- These morasses usually had a green moss growing on them, and were most inviting to gallop over.
- The road leading into the village was a stinking morass of oil and dirt that resembled an airline crash site more then a driveable path.
- Trails through the jungle growth were impassable by the muddy morass.
Synonyms quagmire, swamp, bog, marsh, mire, quag, marshland, peat bog, fen, slough, quicksand Scottish & Northern English moss, carr Irish corcass North American bayou, pocosin, moor archaic marish 2A complicated or confused situation. 〈喻〉复杂混乱的局面，困境 she would become lost in a morass of lies and explanations 她会迷失在乱糟糟的谎言和解释中。 Example sentencesExamples - And in the unfathomable morass of the benefits system, some women can end up in better financial circumstances if they have split from their partner.
- Rumours persist too of other investments in properties and companies; of a morass of financial dealings so complicated that the police are having difficulty getting to the bottom of it all.
- It must be said, however, that education policy is usually a morass of conflicting interests and alternative orientations.
- The chain grew to 149 stores, but eventually collapsed in a morass of disputes.
- The minister said he hoped to streamline and simplify what he called the morass of laws governing alcohol sales, many of which pre-date the Irish State.
- It's become a legal morass, muddied by claims of incompetence and backroom deals.
- At times it sounds like the ranting and raving of a somewhat unhinged mind, but then it takes a certain amount of guts to let people into your mind, into what seems to be a morass of obsessive paranoia.
- The plot of the film is a morass of absolute stupidity.
- Complex procedures were simplified and new game mechanics were used to keep players involved, without losing them in a morass of procedures.
- Foreign attempts to help run into a morass of bureaucracy and ideology.
- The next two chapters on medieval India and the Middle Ages are more muddled, perhaps due the the confusing morass of the actual history of the period.
- Their bond is deep, and they have found mutual understanding amid a morass of confusion.
- I felt that the plans team was slowly sinking into a morass of detail.
- The overall visa problem is really a morass of smaller problems that plague international students and visiting scientists.
- The whole country, the entire populace, should be discussing and debating this in an attempt to work our way out of the morass and design new beginnings.
- By his selections and approach, he has shown that he is determined to find a way through the racial morass that has bedevilled most of his predecessors.
- But this whole issue has been lost in a morass of other complications.
- Time after time the police would charge, the protesters would flee and in the morass they would easily drag their intended target back behind police lines.
- The first years of the program were a morass of infighting, failed launches, and neglect.
- It makes the last two years of Smith's life sound unbearable, a morass of depression, insomnia, paranoia, drug and alcohol abuse and overwork.
- We need designers who demonstrate exceptional comprehension: designers who are able to flesh out the meaning from the morass.
Synonyms confusion, chaos, muddle, tangle, entanglement, imbroglio, mix-up, jumble, clutter mire, quagmire West Indian comess
OriginLate 15th century: from Dutch moeras, alteration (by assimilation to moer 'moor') of Middle Dutch marasch, from Old French marais 'marsh', from medieval Latin mariscus. Rhymesalas, Alsace, amass, Bass, chasse, crass, crevasse, en masse, gas, Hamas, lass, mass, sass, tarantass, tass, wrasse Definition of morass in US English: morassnounməˈræsməˈras 1An area of muddy or boggy ground. 沼泽 Example sentencesExamples - Not everyone likes these cobbled trails but not that long ago this path was thirty feet wide, a swathe of mud and peat, ever-widening as more and more walkers tried to avoid the morass in the middle.
- These morasses usually had a green moss growing on them, and were most inviting to gallop over.
- On the appointed day the Queen inspected a muddy, smelly morass.
- Trails through the jungle growth were impassable by the muddy morass.
- The main landscape feature is endless peatbog, surrounded by marsh, leading into morasses, sloughs and quagmires.
- This heavy foot traffic placed an intolerable burden on the old, original summit path and what had been a pleasant trail up the hillside had turned into a linear morass of mud and glaur.
- The road leading into the village was a stinking morass of oil and dirt that resembled an airline crash site more then a driveable path.
- ‘I noticed some people removing some peat soil from a small morass,’ he writes.
- We tend to take such well maintained paths for granted but on the mountain the contrast between the good path and the muddy morass is all too obvious.
- So each morning and evening, 700 villagers strike out across dirt roads turned into a morass of mud and dung to deliver medicines to people with AIDS and tuberculosis.
Synonyms quagmire, swamp, bog, marsh, mire, quag, marshland, peat bog, fen, slough, quicksand 2A complicated or confused situation. 〈喻〉复杂混乱的局面，困境 she would become lost in a morass of lies and explanations 她会迷失在乱糟糟的谎言和解释中。 Example sentencesExamples - Their bond is deep, and they have found mutual understanding amid a morass of confusion.
- The plot of the film is a morass of absolute stupidity.
- The whole country, the entire populace, should be discussing and debating this in an attempt to work our way out of the morass and design new beginnings.
- The next two chapters on medieval India and the Middle Ages are more muddled, perhaps due the the confusing morass of the actual history of the period.
- Rumours persist too of other investments in properties and companies; of a morass of financial dealings so complicated that the police are having difficulty getting to the bottom of it all.
- It makes the last two years of Smith's life sound unbearable, a morass of depression, insomnia, paranoia, drug and alcohol abuse and overwork.
- It must be said, however, that education policy is usually a morass of conflicting interests and alternative orientations.
- At times it sounds like the ranting and raving of a somewhat unhinged mind, but then it takes a certain amount of guts to let people into your mind, into what seems to be a morass of obsessive paranoia.
- The first years of the program were a morass of infighting, failed launches, and neglect.
- It's become a legal morass, muddied by claims of incompetence and backroom deals.
- The minister said he hoped to streamline and simplify what he called the morass of laws governing alcohol sales, many of which pre-date the Irish State.
- The overall visa problem is really a morass of smaller problems that plague international students and visiting scientists.
- Complex procedures were simplified and new game mechanics were used to keep players involved, without losing them in a morass of procedures.
- Time after time the police would charge, the protesters would flee and in the morass they would easily drag their intended target back behind police lines.
- The chain grew to 149 stores, but eventually collapsed in a morass of disputes.
- I felt that the plans team was slowly sinking into a morass of detail.
- By his selections and approach, he has shown that he is determined to find a way through the racial morass that has bedevilled most of his predecessors.
- Foreign attempts to help run into a morass of bureaucracy and ideology.
- But this whole issue has been lost in a morass of other complications.
- And in the unfathomable morass of the benefits system, some women can end up in better financial circumstances if they have split from their partner.
- We need designers who demonstrate exceptional comprehension: designers who are able to flesh out the meaning from the morass.
Synonyms confusion, chaos, muddle, tangle, entanglement, imbroglio, mix-up, jumble, clutter
OriginLate 15th century: from Dutch moeras, alteration (by assimilation to moer ‘moor’) of Middle Dutch marasch, from Old French marais ‘marsh’, from medieval Latin mariscus. |