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morass
/məˈɹæs/
noun 2
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3ADJ.
bureaucratic
MORASS + NOUN
months, paperwork, r, regulations, self-pity
PREP.
around, down, in, into
Definitions
noun
1
A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
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.
2
Anything that entraps or makes progress difficult.
I wrote to Sacramento about that historical marker, and they've been kicking it around their bureaucratic morass for months.
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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, r
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I wrote to Sacramento about that historical marker, and they've been kicking it around their bureaucratic morass for months.
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We were bogged down in a morass of paperwork.
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His father drank himself into a morass of self-pity.
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The morass of regulations is delaying the project.
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