an area of low land that is always soft and wet because there is nowhere for the water to flow away to They went duck hunting in the marshes. After so much rain, the field had become a marsh (= a very wet area).
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adjective marshy ground/landSee marsh in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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