Swamped

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Swamp \Swamp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swamped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Swamping}.]
     1. To plunge or sink into a swamp.
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     2. (Naut.) To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to


        capsize or sink by whelming with water.
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     3. Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to
        overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
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              The Whig majority of the house of Lords was swamped
              by the creation of twelve Tory peers. --J. R. Green.
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              Having swamped himself in following the ignis fatuus
              of a theory.                          --Sir W.
                                                    Hamilton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  swamped
       adj 1: sunk by being filled with water; "a swamped boat"
       2: rendered powerless especially by an excessive amount or
          profusion of something; "a desk flooded with
          applications"; "felt inundated with work"; "too much
          overcome to notice"; "a man engulfed by fear"; "swamped by
          work" [syn: {flooded}, {inundated}, {overcome}, {overpowered},
           {overwhelmed}, {engulfed}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "swamped":
     afloat, aground, at flood, awash, bathed, castaway, deluged,
     dipped, drenched, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drowned,
     engulfed, flooded, foundered, grounded, high and dry, immersed,
     in spate, inflood, inundated, macerated, marooned, on the rocks,
     oozing, overflowed, overwhelmed, permeated, saturated, seeping,
     set fast, shipwrecked, soaked, soaking, soaking wet, soaky, sodden,
     soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, soused, steeped, stranded,
     stuck, stuck fast, submerged, submersed, swept, washed,
     water-washed, waterlogged, watersoaked, weeping, weltering,
     whelmed, wrecked, wringing wet