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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Swamp  \Swamp\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Swamped};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Swamping}.] 
  1.  To  plunge  or  sink  into  a  swamp. 
 
  2.  (Naut.)  To  cause  (a  boat)  to  become  filled  with  water;  to 
  capsize  or  sink  by  whelming  with  water. 
 
  3.  Fig.:  To  plunge  into  difficulties  and  perils;  to 
  overwhelm;  to  ruin;  to  wreck. 
 
  The  Whig  majority  of  the  house  of  Lords  was  swamped 
  by  the  creation  of  twelve  Tory  peers.  --J.  R.  Green. 
 
  Having  swamped  himself  in  following  the  ignis  fatuus 
  of  a  theory.  --Sir  W. 
  Hamilton. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [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}] 




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