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fever-swamp en · NOUN

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1. Alternative form of fever swamp. ▸ Disease-ridden swamp.
   • It was so hot in this fever-swamp that his water requirements would be prodigious. 2006, Hugh Cook, The Worshippers and the Way, →ISBN, page 260:
   • 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. 1974, Lin Carter, The valley where time stood still, page 31:
   • 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. 2007, Matilda Houstoun, Hesperos - Volume 2, →ISBN, page 42:
2. Alternative form of fever swamp. ▸ Group of political extremists.
   • The community has been the focus of the fever-swamp for years, with pundits insisting it's a terrorist training camp. 2017 February 21, Heather Yakin, “Our Muslim neighbors are being targeted with violent threats”, in Times Herald-Record:
3. Alternative form of fever swamp. ▸ Extreme political positions.
   • Among those caught up in the fever-swamp was Karl Rove, the architect of George W. Bush's two White House wins. 2014, John Avlon, Wingnuts: Extremism in the Age of Obama, →ISBN, page 252:

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