[məˈras], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an area of muddy or boggy ground
(e.g: in midwinter the track beneath this bridge became a muddy morass)

- a complicated or confused situation
(e.g: she would become lost in a morass of lies and explanations)


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Origin:
late 15th century: from Dutch moeras, alteration (by assimilation to moer ‘moor’) of Middle Dutch marasch, from Old French marais ‘marsh’, from medieval Latin mariscus