noun
- areas of soft, wet ground; swamps or marshes
- complicated or confused situations that are difficult to escape from
Usage: figurative
Examples
- The hikers avoided the morasses near the river.
- Cattle often get stuck in these treacherous morasses.
- The legal case became one of those complex morasses that drag on for years.
- She found herself trapped in morasses of bureaucratic red tape.
- The wetland preserve protects several important morasses.
- Political morasses can destroy even the most promising careers.
- These morasses provide habitat for many rare bird species.