Usually means: Wetlands with trees, stagnant water.
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  8. swamps: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (swamp)

noun:  A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes (a type of wetland). (Compare marsh, bog, fen.)
noun:  (figurative) A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.
verb:  To drench or fill with water.
verb:  (figurative) To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
verb:  (figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
verb:  (Appalachia) To clear (a road or an area) of brush, particularly so as to create a path for loggers to be able to access trees.
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