Meaning of fever-swamp | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Disease-ridden swamp.
2. Group of political extremists.
3. Extreme political positions.

Examples

“Think⟳ of it as the Martian equivalent of the Fountain of Youth, which that grizzled and gullible old soldier-of-fortune, Ponce de Leon, once searched for in the fever-swamps of Florida, and you will not be far off the mark⟳.”

“It was so hot in this fever-swamp that his water requirements would be prodigious.”

“And now we were fairly on the bosom of the 'mighty' Mississippi, that largest, and ugliest, and most tremendous of rivers ; tremendous through the force⟳ of its resistless currents, and the fever-swamps that spread⟳ their noxious vapours over its surface.”

“The community has been the focus⟳ of the fever-swamp for years, with pundits insisting it's a terrorist training camp.”

“Among those caught up in the fever-swamp was Karl Rove, the architect of George W. Bush's two White House wins.”

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