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English
Etymology
From Dutch moeras (“marsh, swamp”), from Middle Dutch marasch (“marsh”), from Old French mareis, from Proto-West Germanic *marisk. Doublet of marish and marsh.
Pronunciation
Noun
morass (plural morasses)
- A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
1853, John Ruskin, “Torcello”, in The Stones of Venice, volume II (The Sea-Stories), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., , →OCLC, § I, page 11:Seven miles to the north of Venice, the banks of sand, which near the city rise little above low-water mark, attain by degrees a higher level, and knit themselves at last into fields of salt morass, raised here and there into shapeless mounds, and intercepted by narrow creeks of sea.
- (figurative) Anything that entraps or makes progress difficult.
Derived terms
Translations
tract of soft, wet ground
anything that entraps or makes progress difficult