Meaning

4 senses

  1. To drench or fill with water.

    The boat was swamped in the storm.

    drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged

  2. (figuratively)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.

    überfluten, überschwemmen

  3. (figuratively)To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.

  4. (Appalachia)To clear (a road or an area) of brush, particularly so as to create a path for loggers to be able to access trees.

Examples

86 sentences

  1. I'm swamped with work.

    Роботи - хоч гать гати. — deniko

    ruУ меня работы невпроворот. — Olya

    deIch ersticke in Arbeit. — Zaghawa

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  2. We need to cross this swamp.

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  3. Tom's body was found in a swamp.

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  4. Tom's body was found in the swamp.

    ruТруп Тома был найден в болоте. — Wezel

    deToms Leiche wurde im Sumpf gefunden. — maaster

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  5. Tom is swamped with work.

    deTom erstickt in Arbeit. — Zaghawa

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Translations

4 languages
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overwhelm:

Origin

Early attestations (starting in 1624) are from North America, but the term was probably in

Early attestations (starting in 1624) are from North America, but the term was probably in local use in Britain earlier. The etymology is not entirely certain; it is probably a fusion of Middle English swam (“swamp, muddy pool, bog, marsh”, also “fungus, mushroom”) — from Old English swamm (“mushroom, fungus, sponge”), from Proto-West Germanic *swamm, from Proto-Germanic *swambaz, *swammaz — and Middle English sompe (“marsh, morass”), from either Middle Dutch somp, sump (“marsh, swamp”) or Middle Low German sump (“marsh, swamp”) (from Old Saxon *sump (“swamp, marsh”)), both from Proto-West Germanic *sump, from Proto-Germanic *sumpaz. *Swambaz, *swammaz and *sumpaz are likely related to each other, but it is unclear whether they are of Indo-European origin or are substrate words or wanderworts.

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Forms

swamps, swamping, swamped, swamped
Base formswamp · to swamp
3rd person singularswamps
Present participleswamping
Past simpleswamped
Past participleswamped

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyswamp
he, she, itswamps

Past simpleLesson

all personsswamped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave swamped
he, she, ithas swamped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill swamp

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Derivedswamp out

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
swaggerswallowA2swampyswanB2swanky
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