swamp
/ˈswɑmp/ verb C2- To drench or fill with water. · The boat was swamped in the storm.
- To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of. · I have been swamped with paperwork ever since they started using the new system.
- To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
- To clear (a road or an area) of brush, particularly so as to create a path for loggers to be able to access trees.
He/she/it swamps · Past swamped · Past participle swamped · -ing form swamping
Verb forms
- Base form
- swamp
- He/she/it
- swamps
- Past
- swamped
- Past participle
- swamped
- -ing form
- swamping
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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I must have that girl, dad, or this town is a blackjack swamp forevermore.
“It is a swamp adder!” cried Holmes; “the deadliest snake in India.
Beside it were the crumbling remains of the cottages of the miners, driven away no doubt by the foul reek of the surrounding swamp.
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