A lot of dry snow melted in swamps (6)
I believe the answer is:
drowns
'swamps' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with contact as well as being verbs in their -s form.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'a lot of dry snow melted' is the wordplay.
'a lot of' means to remove the last letter (a lot of but not all of the word).
'melted' is an anagram indicator.
'dry' with its last letter removed is 'dr'.
'snow' is an anagram of 'owns'.
'dr'+'owns'='DROWNS'
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for drowns that I've seen before include "Soaks" , "Kills in water or overpowers sound" , "Suffocates in water" , "Dies by submersion in water" , "Goes under" .)