a. An area of low-lying land that is frequently flooded, especially one dominated by woody plants.
b. A lowland region saturated with water.
2. A situation or place fraught with difficulties and imponderables: a financial swamp.
1. To drench in or cover with or as if with water.
2. To inundate or burden; overwhelm: She was swamped with work.
3. Nautical To fill (a ship or boat) with water to the point of sinking it.
To become full of water or sink.
b. (as modifier): swamp fever.
3. to overburden or overwhelm or be overburdened or overwhelmed, as by excess work or great numbers: we have been swamped with applications.
1. a tract of wet, spongy land, usu. with abundant vegetation.
2. to flood or drench, esp. with water.
3. to sink or fill (a boat) with water.
4. to overwhelm, esp. to overwhelm with an excess of something: swamped with work.
5. to clear underbrush from, esp. to make a trail.
6. to fill with water and sink, as a boat.
An area of low-lying wet or seasonally flooded land, often having trees and dense shrubs or thickets.
2. swamp - a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables; "he was trapped in a medical swamp"
Verb 1. swamp - drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged; "The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor"
2. swamp - fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"
1. bog, marsh, quagmire, moss (Scot. & Northern English dialect), slough, fen, mire, morass, everglade(s) (U.S.) Much of the land is desert or swamp.
1. flood, engulf, submerge, inundate, deluge The Ventura river burst its banks, swamping a mobile home park.
2. overload, overwhelm, inundate, besiege, beset, snow under We swamp them with praise, make them think that they are important.
bog, fen, marsh, marshland, mire, morass, muskeg, quag, quagmire, slough, swampland, wetland.
deluge, flood, inundate, overwhelm, whelm.
As I passed along beside the deep and tangled vegetation of the swamp I thought that I saw a movement of the ferns at my left, but though I stopped a moment to look it was not repeated, and if anything lay hid there my eyes could not penetrate the dense foliage to discern it.
The Indians immediately threw themselves into the edge of a swamp, among willows and cotton-wood trees, interwoven with vines.
The hollow is impassable- there's a swamp there," said the esaul.
The air was thick with unwholesome odours rising from the lake-like swamp beyond the drooping circle of trees.
And again there are those who sit in their swamp, and speak thus from among the bulrushes: "Virtue--that is to sit quietly in the swamp.
Now," cried the captain, "easy with that gun, sir, or you'll swamp the boat.
Emerging from the swamp of mangroves, abruptly they came upon a patch of sand, still so salt and inhospitable from the sea's deposit that no great trees rooted and interposed their branches between it and the sun's heat.
So the Chairman appointed a committee to watch for the victim at midnight, and take him as he should attempt to sneak into town across-lots from the tamarack swamp.
It was the same swamp to which I had made my first journeys in the world, years before, accompanied by my mother.
And immediately all his weariness vanished, and he walked lightly through the swamp towards the dog.
I have untied against you the club-footed vines, I have sent in the Jungle to swamp out your lines.