(n.) Infectious particles or germs floating in the air; air made noxious by the presence of such particles or germs; noxious effluvia; malaria.
Example Sentences:
(1) So many young female tennis players look like dolls, the confusion of woman with (sex) doll is almost natural for the broadcaster swimming in the miasma of his own idiocy.
(2) The casual organisms were considered to be miasmas -- noxious emanations -- or "contagia" i.e.
(3) Nothing seems quite above board in a miasma of Windrush and Firerush nameplates , out of sight, mind and national boundary.
(4) Non-contagionists put forward several hypotheses to explain the origin and the spreading of cholera, mainly "miasma" theory and the Hippocratic paradigm of "epidemic constitution".
(5) The doctrinal differences help explain how LET has maintained a distinctive character in the miasma of Pakistani militancy.
(6) British Toryism, nowadays synonymous with Conservatism, has never escaped its metaphor miasma.
(7) If the pinnacle of urban living is refuse-clogged open drainage which, when sun warmed, emits the most noxious miasmas that mingle with generator exhaust, then get me to the countryside.
(8) The violence and the horror it has hosted in recent decades coats it like a sticky, stinking miasma.
(9) Yet the high hopes of a coherent, funded effort that would spread clean technology through the developing world, while supporting subsistence farmers to adapt new methods to improve sustainability, have been bogged down in a mess of broken promises and mistrust, and a miasma of acronyms and initials.
(10) When the Heat came up with promising offensive possessions in key spots, they would, more often than not, just fizzle out in a miasma of misses, turnovers and bad fouls.
(11) The actual culprit was sewage in drinking water (as the Soho doctor John Snow deduced in the 1850s), yet the miasma theory was nonetheless useful in developing city infrastructure, as it encouraged the authorities to clean up.
(12) To these concerns can be added: the shortages of qualified teachers in some subjects; the shortage of school places in some areas where local authorities have been prevented from building; baseline testing of four-year-olds; the “foul miasma of Ofsted” (as one teachers’ union general secretary recently described it); surveys showing a quarter of different age groups of children expressing a dislike of school; and the 1% cap on teachers’ salaries over the past five years.
(13) Without luck, some analysts foresee a mini-Iraq in the making, a new miasma of civil war, fragmentation and sectarian conflict.
(14) Like all other epidemics, they were thought to be attributed to a miasma transported by the air and resulting from bad vapours, and it was for two milleniums that this remained the explanation for infectiosity.
(15) The politics of miasma, where words matter more than facts and actions, lets the Tea Party demand the impossible – debt reduction with tax cuts, spending cuts without touching the gargantuan defence budget.
(16) That vacuum had to be filled in order for the status quo – the miasma of relationships between the state, organised crime, freemasonry and commerce – to remain intact.
(17) The event occurred before the bacteriological era, when fear of cholera caused by a miasma gripped the city.
(18) The early Victorians had their own theory about what caused cholera, that it was "spread by miasmas," he says, "which are basically bad smells.
(19) One attributed the occurrence of miasma to this component.
(20) The Prince of Wales's vision may be intuited from Highgrove, a miasma of upper-middle-class over-stuffing.
Swamp
Definition:
(n.) Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.
(v. t.) To plunge or sink into a swamp.
(v. t.) To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.
(v. t.) Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
(v. i.) To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.
(v. i.) To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is a moral swamp, but it's one the Salvation Army claims to be stepping into out of charity .
(2) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
(3) It has been characterised by others in government as just beating back the crocodiles that come close to the boat rather than draining the swamp."
(4) They can expect to be swamped more often by tidal surges, battered by ever stronger typhoons and storms, and hit by deeper droughts.
(5) The footpaths I followed became swamped with knapweed, bramble and nettle.
(6) One hundred newborn swamp buffalo calves (Bubalis bubalis) from three villages in North-East Thailand were divided equally into treatment and control groups.
(7) The majority of US retailers expect their absolute emissions to in fact grow over time, with business growth swamping efficiency gains.
(8) The prevalence of antibodies at titre 1:10 varied between 31.1% in the derived savannah and 94.4% in the swamp forest.
(9) Guardian US environment correspondent Suzanne Goldenberg looked at the role cities would have to play in reducing emissions: At-risk cities hold solutions to climate change: UN report It is already taking shape as the 21st century urban nightmare: a big storm hits a city like Shanghai, Mumbai, Miami or New York, knocking out power supply and waste treatment plants, washing out entire neighbourhoods and marooning the survivors in a toxic and foul-smelling swamp.
(10) Consecutive man-of-the-match performances against Greece and Ivory Coast helped Colombia brush aside the lassitude that swamped the country’s World Cup preparations after injury to their talismanic striker Falcao .
(11) This month the concessions are being worked at a breakneck pace, with giant tractors and heavy machinery clearing trees, draining swamps and ploughing the land in time to catch the next growing season.
(12) This utterly swamps any western attempt at mitigation.
(13) True, some Britons might be struggling in these austerity years to deal with the rapid shift in ethnic make-up of our towns and cities, but “swamped”?
(14) The explosive briefing attributed to him this week blaming the alleged extremist infiltration of Birmingham schools on a failure by the Home Office to "drain the swamp" by confronting extremism long before it develops into terrorism also suggests that his views remain the same.
(15) Focus on tax reform, healthcare and so many other things of far greater importance!” Trump added the hashtag #DTS, for his campaign slogan “drain the swamp”.
(16) In "Policy Options and the Impact of National Health Insurance," Newhouse, Phelps, and Schwartz concluded that any national health insurance program which did not provide for high user copayments, particularly for ambulatory services, would swamp, and ultimately wreck, the health care delivery system, particularly for ambulatory services.
(17) Storms lash and floods swamp, but the hurricane of cuts outlined by this week's grim report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies will cause infinitely greater devastation to millions for many years to come, like nothing before.
(18) These studies concentrated on those individual birds known, by banding returns, to be residents of large wooded swamps where both eastern equine encephalomyelitis and Highlands J viruses were known to be enzootic.
(19) Mike Pratt, 38, Norfolk Cronus Titan 23 November 2016 4:23pm The UK economy has been swamped with low wages and I see it very difficult for this ever to be resolved without joe public yet again having to take a bullet for the rich.
(20) Either he is an unapologetic populist whose efforts to drain the swamp of Washington have been met, all too predictably, by powerful resistance.