22 February 2017
morass
[muh-ras]
noun
1. a tract of low, soft, wet ground.
2. a marsh or bog.
3. marshy ground.
4. any confusing or troublesome situation, especially one from which it is difficult to free oneself; entanglement.
Origin of morass
Dutch, Middle Dutch, Old French
1645-1655; < Dutch moeras, alteration (by association with moer marsh; cf. moor1) of Middle Dutch maras < Old French mareis < Germanic. See marsh
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Examples from the Web for morass
Contemporary Examples
His life became a morass of anger and self-destruction: suicide attempts, gang activity.
Carmine Galasso’s ‘Crosses’: Childhoods Robbed by the Church
The Daily Beast
March 10, 2013
CEO waded into the morass and basically declared himself Scientology Enemy No. 1.
Rupert Murdoch Attacks Scientology Because It Once Courted His Son Lachlan
Paula Froelich
July 1, 2012
The facts on the ground are anything but auspicious for America injecting itself into an intra-Arab morass, writes Lloyd Green.
Obama’s Syrian “Red Line” Could Return Us To The Mistakes of Iraq
Lloyd Green
May 4, 2013
The facts on the ground are anything but auspicious for America injecting itself into an intra-Arab morass.
Obama’s Syrian “Red Line” Could Return Us To The Mistakes of Iraq
Lloyd Green
May 4, 2013
He can bring about two states living in peace and security, or continue the drift into the morass of an unsustainable occupation.
Come Clean, Mr. Prime Minister
Stephen Robert
May 31, 2012
Historical Examples
I should think some of them might lead less frequently to bramble and morass.
A Woman of Genius
Mary Austin
He knew every inch of the land, the river, the morass, and the commanding hill.
Lafayette
Martha Foote Crow
Humor alone could accomplish Munchausen’s feat, and draw itself by its own hair out of the morass.
Library of the World’s Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16
Various
The street had been transformed into a morass of sticky mud by the storm.
L’Assommoir
Emile Zola
The Pennsylvania regiment to which the Wyoming troops belonged, occupied the strip of woods near the morass.
In the Days of Washington
William Murray Graydon
Anagram
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Today’s quote
I am a deeply superficial person.
– Andy Warhol
On this day
22 February 1512 – Death of Amerigo Vespucci in Seville, Spain. Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer. Vespucci believed that Christopher Columbus’s discovery of the ‘New World’ or ‘East Asia’ (now known as the Bahamas) and the land mass beyond it, was not part of Asia, but a separate ‘super-continent’. America is named after Vespucci. Born 9 March 1454 in Florence, Italy.
22 February 1962 – birth of Steve Irwin, ‘The Crocodile Hunter’, Australian wildlife expert and television personality. (Died 4 September 2006).
22 February 1987 – death of Andy Warhol. (Born Andrew Warhola). American artist who was a pioneer of pop art. American writer, Gore Vidal, once said, ‘Andy Warhol is the only genius I’ve ever known with an IQ of 60‘ Born 6 August 1928.